Using Format/Parse/ConvertEventArgs in DataGrid???

[jim]

I've found this question on several message boards with no answer:

Say I've got a datagrid bound to a datatable.

How can I use the format/parse delegates to mask the contents of a column?

Say I want the "company_id" column to call my decodeCoID() function that will look up the name in a hash-table.

I suspect I'm going to hadd a handler to some binding: AddHandler b.Format addressof decodeCoID

The question really is: which binding do I add it to? How do I get a handle to the "company_id" databinding having only set the data source to a table with a "company_id" column?

Help much appreciated!!!
Jim

[Mike Pollitt]

I found this on MSDN: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318581


>I''ve found this question on several message boards with no answer:
>
>Say I''ve got a datagrid bound to a datatable.
>
>How can I use the format/parse delegates to mask the contents of a column?
>
>Say I want the "company_id" column to call my decodeCoID() function that will look up the name in a hash-table.
>
>I suspect I''m going to hadd a handler to some binding: AddHandler b.Format addressof decodeCoID
>
>The question really is: which binding do I add it to? How do I get a handle to the "company_id" databinding having only set the data source to a table with a "company_id" column?
>
>Help much appreciated!!!
>Jim