Custom Date and Time Format Strings. In formatting operations, custom date and time format strings can be used either with the ToString method of a date and time instance or with a method that supports composite formatting. The following example illustrates both uses. In parsing operations, custom date and time format strings can be used with the DateTime.ParseExact, DateTime.TryParseExact, DateTimeOffset.ParseExact, and DateTimeOffset.TryParseExact methods. These methods require that an input string conform exactly to a particular pattern for the parse operation to succeed. The following example illustrates a call to the DateTimeOffset.ParseExact(String, String, IFormatProvider) method to parse a date that must include a day, a month, and a two-digit year.
The following table describes the custom date and time format specifiers and displays a result string produced by each format specifier. The "d" custom format specifier represents the day of the month as a number from 1 through 31. Expression Web help. If you need to add a date and time to an expression web page, you can use some asp.net v2 code. Your page must be an aspx page. <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " <html> <head> <title>My First ASP.NET Page</title> <script runat="server" language="C#"> protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { timeLabel.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString(); } </script> </head> <body> <p>Hello there!
</p> <p>The time is now: <asp:Label runat="server" id="timeLabel" /></p> </body> </html> The code Copy the above code and paste it into a html page. Test your page in a browser. Styling You can style the display by either setting the properties in the Tag Properties task pane, or with a CSS class style. Simply click on the time label in design view and the tag property task pane will display the options open to you.
Limitations Using the code provided, has some minor limitations. See an example here. ASP.NET Tip - Use The Label Control Correctly. Scott Watermasysk has a great set of Quick Tips for ASP.NET on his blog. And this is only part one! I’m Looking forward to seeing the subsequent posts of this series. However, I disagree slightly with his tip to Never use the ASP.NET Label control.
I would rephrase it to: Never use the ASP.NET Label control when a Literal would do. The problem is not the Label control. The Label control has a specific usage, to be a label for a form input. Textbox control and label Let’s look at one way to create this simple form using a Literal control (Notice I’m getting the value from a Resource file because we all want to be internationally friendly, right? <asp:Literal id="label" Text="<%$ Resources:UserName %>" runat="server" /><asp:TextBox id="textbox" runat="server"/> When you click on the word Username what happens? Now, we’ve associated the label to the control. <label for="textbox">Username</label><input type="textbox" name="textbox" value="" /> So why use the Label server control here? Expression Web Resource - Tips and Tutorials. Expression Web Add-ins - EW Addons, Macros and Snippets.
What are Expression Web Addons? EW Addons are software that you install on your computer to add functionality to EW that is not available with the original product. Addons can take several forms including templates, Component Object Model (COM) addons, and macros. Expression Web Addons are created by members of the developer community for EW including Microsoft programmers and third parties. Creating an Expression Web Addon by Jim Cheshire NOTE: Jim will be starting work soon an a Creating Expression Web 4 Add-ins book What Addons would you like to see made for EW? Drop your friendly neighbourhood developer a line and tell him or her your ideas. Colour Code: Expression Web 1.0 - EW 1.0 Expression Web 2.0 - EW 2.0 Expression Web 3.0 - EW 3.0 Expression Web 4.0 - EW 4.0 Third Party Expression Web Commercial Addons Ajaxtix Expression Web Addins CSS MenuTools Expression Web Addins Works with EW 1.0, EW 2.0, EW 3.0 and EW 4.0 plus FrontPage 2003 Free Expression Web Addons Works in any Editor.
Jimco Books Tutorials on Expression Web and ASP.NET.