How to format DateTime columns in DataGridView?

Question

Hello, I'm using a DataGridView with object data binding to display information about logging entities in a system, retrieved via SOAP from a remote service. One of the columns is called "Last action" and means the last time the entity logged a message. It is a System.DateTime value. When I read the SOAP response (example below), he timestamp obviously contains all the information, up to second fractions.

<LoggingEntity>
<host>marty86ce</host>
<process>10148</process>
<logger>http_core</logger>
<appName>httpd</appName>
<ffda>true</ffda>
<lastAction>2010-10-27T12:00:19.5117509Z</lastAction>
<lastHeartbeat>0001-01-01T00:00:00</lastHeartbeat>
<channelId>em_9BA2A2B4D0B6E66</channelId>
<ffdaChannelId>em_E7C8D1D4DE8EEB9</ffdaChannelId>
</LoggingEntity>

When I display it on the table, I instead can read up to the minutes I use the following code to do the data binding when I press the refresh button

public void RefreshEntities()
{
    IEntityManagement management = EntityPlugin.GetProxy();
    LoggingEntity[] result = management.FindLoggingEntities(new TemplateQuery { ffdaSpecified = true, ffda = true }); //Remote invocation

    Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate { gridEntities.DataSource = result; })); //THIS does the data binding from the array

    Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate { btnRefresh.Enabled = true; }));
}

I would like to know how to control column formatting of data bound values. I think that the format dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm comes from my system's settings. How to override formatting settings programmatically?

Thank you in advance

Full solution code on Subversion (FFDAGui program) for the Logbus-ng open source project.

Answer 1

Use Column.DefaultCellStyle.Format property or set it in designer

Answer 2

You can set the format you want:

dataGridViewCellStyle.Format = "dd/MM/yyyy";
this.date.DefaultCellStyle = dataGridViewCellStyle;
// date being a System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewTextBoxColumn