How to format a time-stamp to show the date only in a grid view

Question

In an aspx page I am binding the labels like this:

  
            
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Answer 1

Create a FormatDate method in your codebehind, and call that from your gridview.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ffffd4.aspx
http://www.csharp-examples.net/string-format-datetime/

This part will go in your code behind

private object FormatDate(DateTime input)
{
    return String.Format("{0:MM/dd/yy}", input);
}

And this bit will go in your markup

This is what I would call a D.R.Y. approach to the problem. If you ever need to modify the formatting in any way. You can simply edit the code behind method and it will rain down sweet love to all of your markup.