I am writing a webpage in VB.net.

I cant access the dataformat property of a column in the datagrid.

But I get this error in Visual Studio :

DataFormat is not a member of System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridColumn

Actually DataGridColumn is an abstract class. The Column
in DataGrid should one of its inherited 'Column' classes,
BoundColumn, TemplateColumn, HyperLinkColumn,
ButtonColumn, or EditCommandColumn. DataFormatString is
member of either BoundColumn or HyperLinkColumn, but not
of others. You should know the specific type of the column
you want to access. Only if it is BoundColumn or
HyperLinkColumn, you can access its DataFormatString
property by first casting the column to its specific type.

HTH,

Elton Wang


System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridColumn
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So you can't do it for columns that you Autogenerate with on a datagrid.

you want to access. Only if it is BoundColumn or
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