nPath Ltd.

So here is the scenario,

I want to display the first 25 characters of a text field in a grid.

You can do this a few ways such as, truncate when the datasource selects it, alter it on rowdatabound and probably a few others. But I wanted to try to find a way using the a format string.

<asp:Label ID="amanotesLabel"
runat="server"
Text='<%#String.Format("{0}",Eval("notes")).Substring(0,25)%>'

it throws an error when the string is less than 25 characters which can be corrected like so….
There are 25 spaces after the {0}

<asp:Label ID="amanotesLabel"

runat="server"
Text='<%#String.Format("{0}                         ",Eval("notes")).Substring(0,25)%>'

So there you have it, no events needed.