I am trying to do the following directly into the aspx page but it is not showing the date value. I dont want to do it from the code behind. Am i missing something small here? P
When using a databinding expression such as <%# DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() %>
, then you have to call Page.DataBind()
(or ltrDate.DataBind()
if that's the only databound control) from your code-behind (e.g. in Page_Load).
If you do not need to access the value of the Literal control from the code-behind, then there is no need to use it. Instead, you can just use the following expression in your page directly where you want to print the date:
<%= DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() %>
With server controls, you can only put either static text, databinding expressions <%# xx %>
, or expression builders <%$ %>
inside the property values in the page markup.
See this related question for more details about each approach.