i have a table in SqlServer which contain's: (ID, item_name, date_time_added)
i want to create a C# code to first: view (ID,item_name, date_time_added) column in datagridview then calculate (date_time_NOW - date_time_added) and view the result in a new column(named: expire's in:) in same datagridview...
Note: result would count day's remaining before expiring
what i've tried so far:
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add(new DataColumn("Expire's in:", typeof(int)));
int countrow = dataGridView1.RowCount;
for (int i = 0; i < countrow; i++)
{
string dateAsString = dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Cells[3].Value.ToString();
DateTime.TryParseExact(dateAsString , "yyyy-MM-dd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.AssumeLocal, out DateTime dateAsString);
dateTimePicker3.Text = dateAsString;
DateTime expire_date = dateTimePicker3.Value;
TimeSpan span = expire_date - DateTime.Now;
int days = span.Days;
dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Cells[4].Value = days;
}
Note:Code Updated...
Any help will be greatly appreciated..
I will assume the “ExpireDate” field returned from the sql query is a DateTime object. If this is the case then it would appear that converting the “date” to a string is unnecessary. Example, given a “future” date, then the difference between todays date and the “future” date can be accomplished as…
TimeSpan dif = futureDate.Subtract(DateTime.Now);
Using a DataTable proffers the ability to use an Expression column, however, I do not think this will work with dates and times. Fortunately, this should not be difficult to implement if the grids DataSource is a DataTable. Using a “Class” would be another option. This example uses a DataTable as a DataSource to the grid.
Given this, to make things simple it would appear that a method that takes a DataRow from the data table and adds this TimeSpan difference may come in handy. It may look something like below…
private void SetDifCol(DataRow row) {
TimeSpan dif = ((DateTime)row["ExpireDate"]).Subtract(DateTime.Now);
row["TimeToExpire"] = dif.Days + " days " + dif.Hours + " hours " + dif.Minutes + " minutes";
}
Given that the DataTable has already been filled with the data… the code is going to have to “ADD” this difference column, then loop through each row and calculate the difference between the dates. Therefore, a small method that simply adds this column may look something like below…
private void AddDifferenceColumn(DataTable dt) {
dt.Columns.Add("TimeToExpire", typeof(string));
}
Next is the loop through all the rows in the DataTable and simply call the SetDifCol method on each row.
private void CalculateDateDif(DataTable dt) {
foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows) {
SetDifCol(row);
}
}
This will work as expected when the data is loaded, however, what if the user “changes” one of the “ExpireDate” values in the grid? In this case, we would need to wire up one of the grids cell change events. Specifically the grids CellValueChanged event. This event will call the SetDifCol method if the “ExpireDate” value changes in that row…
private void dataGridView1_CellValueChanged(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) {
if (dataGridView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name == "ExpireDate") {
if (e.RowIndex >= 0 && dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells["ExpireDate"].Value != null) {
DataRowView row = (DataRowView)dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].DataBoundItem;
SetDifCol(row.Row);
}
}
}
Putting this all together may look something like below…
DataTable GridTable;
public Form1() {
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
GridTable = GetTable();
FillTable(GridTable);
AddDifferenceColumn(GridTable);
CalculateDateDif(GridTable);
dataGridView1.DataSource = GridTable;
dataGridView1.Columns[3].Width = 180;
}
private DataTable GetTable() {
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(string));
dt.Columns.Add("Name", typeof(string));
dt.Columns.Add("ExpireDate", typeof(DateTime));
return dt;
}
private void AddDifferenceColumn(DataTable dt) {
dt.Columns.Add("TimeToExpire", typeof(string));
}
private void FillTable(DataTable dt) {
dt.Rows.Add("ID1", "Name1", new DateTime(2019, 12, 31));
dt.Rows.Add("ID2", "Name2", new DateTime(2019, 8, 31));
dt.Rows.Add("ID3", "Name3", new DateTime(2019, 4, 30));
dt.Rows.Add("ID4", "Name4", new DateTime(2019, 1, 31));
dt.Rows.Add("ID5", "Name5", new DateTime(2019, 4, 12, 21, 38, 00));
}
private void CalculateDateDif(DataTable dt) {
foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows) {
SetDifCol(row);
}
}
private void SetDifCol(DataRow row) {
TimeSpan dif = ((DateTime)row["ExpireDate"]).Subtract(DateTime.Now);
row["TimeToExpire"] = dif.Days + " days " + dif.Hours + " hours " + dif.Minutes + " minutes";
}
private void dataGridView1_CellValueChanged(object sender, DataGridViewCellEventArgs e) {
if (dataGridView1.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name == "ExpireDate") {
if (e.RowIndex >= 0 && dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells["ExpireDate"].Value != null) {
DataRowView row = (DataRowView)dataGridView1.Rows[e.RowIndex].DataBoundItem;
SetDifCol(row.Row);
}
}
}
I hope this helps.
EDIT:
to change column type from string to int to sort numerically.
In reference to the extra question you posted, you commented that ”i want to calculate according to what is inside my db Table” … There is no code in this question or the other question that shows a data base. How are you getting the data to begin with?
It appears in this question that there IS a NEW DataTable dt and a column is added to it, however, it is NEVER used. The loop in the code simply adds the difference column to the “GRID” NOT the DataTable. My answer “adds” the diffence column to the DataTable (which you should do). I recommend you show how you are getting the data from the data base.
In reference to sorting the column, you have already noticed that strings that are numbers will not sort properly numerically. This is because they are string… solution… make them ints. Using my answer, two changes are need for this. First the creation of the column needs to be an int type…
private void AddDifferenceColumn(DataTable dt) {
dt.Columns.Add("TimeToExpire", typeof(int));
}
Second a change is needed in the SetDifCol method. Since you only want the days difference and any values less than zero should show as zero (0), then the following changes should accommodate this requirement.
private void SetDifCol(DataRow row) {
TimeSpan dif = ((DateTime)row["ExpireDate"]).Subtract(DateTime.Now);
if (dif.Days >= 0) {
row["TimeToExpire"] = dif.Days;
}
else {
row["TimeToExpire"] = 0;
}
}
These two changes should sort the column numerically as expected.
Lastly, it should be clear, that IF you want this “difference” column to be reflected in the database… then YOU will have to add the difference column to the database table, THEN, you will need to issue an update command to the database table.
From what I see you try to put a string into the DateTime value here:
DateTime str;
str=dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Cells[3].Value.ToString();
If you want to parse string to DateTime the code should look like this:
string dateAsString = dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Cells[3].Value.ToString();
DateTime.TryParseExact(dateAsString, "yyyy-MM-dd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.AssumeLocal, out DateTime dateAsDateTime);
Then you can substract that date from DateTime.Now:
TimeSpan span = dateAsDateTime - DateTime.Now;
And finally extract the days from the span:
int days = span.Days;
OR just do it all in one line:
int days = (DateTime.Now - dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0].Index].Cells[3].Value).Days;
I'm struggling with the following. I have a DataTable with dates in it. Dates that can contain several time rows. Now I want to click on a date on the calender and it will put the times records from that day in a listbox so I can then select the time.
I'm stuck and googled around but I'm blind at this point.
The datatable output in gridview:
Datum
-----------------
22-09-14 13:05:00
22-09-14 13:05:18
23-09-14 13:05:36
23-09-14 13:05:54
23-09-14 13:06:12
21-09-14 14:00:01
21-09-14 15:00:01
21-09-14 16:00:01
21-09-14 17:00:01
The code in the calander SelectionChanged event:
// Create datatable
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
string FileName = "C:\\ProjectName\\data\\data.dat";
var lines = File.ReadAllLines(FileName);
// Make date column
dt.Columns.Add("Datum", typeof(DateTime));
// add rows
for (int i = 2; i < lines.Count(); i++)
{
DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
string[] values = lines[i].Split(new char[] { ',' }).Select(x => x.Replace("\"", "")).ToArray();
for (int j = 0; j < values.Count() && j < 1; j++)
dr[j] = values[j];
dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
// Convert selected date
string currentDate = e.SelectedDates.Count - 1 >= 0 ? e.SelectedDates[e.SelectedDates.Count - 1].Date.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy") : "none";
// Print selected date to see format
Label1.Text = currentDate;
// Create dataview and apply filter
DataView dv = new DataView(dt);
dv.RowFilter = "Datum = #" + currentDate + "#";
dv.RowStateFilter = DataViewRowState.ModifiedCurrent;
dv.Sort = "Datum DESC";
// dataview to listbox
lbSource.DataSource = dv;
lbSource.DataTextFormatString = "{0:dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm}";
lbSource.DataTextField = "Datum";
lbSource.DataValueField = "Datum";
lbSource.DataBind();
The dv filter gives me:
String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Debugging stops with the following line and gives the "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.":
dv.RowFilter = "Datum = #" + currentDate + "#";
currentdate comes with the correct date: 22-09-2014 (dd-MM-yyyy)
If someone could help me out, thanks a lot :)
Basically the .rowfilter compare takes the date as Mm/dd/yyyy as comparison. It will see 20/10/2018 as an invalid date. It will work for day being lower than 12.
So in your datatable, the date is stored as dd/mm/yyyy.
Unless you change the date storage format to mm/dd/yyyy, I don't think you can rowsfilter.
I am having some problem when trying to format DateTime in Asp.net. I wanted the date to display as 18/1//2014 instead of 18/1/2014 12.00 AM. Here is the code:
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("totalQuantity");
dt.Columns.Add("deliveryDate");
for (int count = 0; count < catSumList.Count; count++)
{
DataRow dr = dt.NewRow();
dr["totalQuantity"] = catSumList[count].productQuantity;
dr["deliveryDate"] = catSumList[count].deliveryDate;
dt.Rows.Add(dr);
}
string[] deliveryDate = new string[dt.Rows.Count];
decimal[] totalQuantity = new decimal[dt.Rows.Count];
for (int i = 0; i < dt.Rows.Count; i++)
{
totalQuantity[i] = Convert.ToInt32(dt.Rows[i][0]);
deliveryDate[i] = dt.Rows[i][1].ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
lcCategory.Series.Add(new AjaxControlToolkit.LineChartSeries { Data = totalQuantity });
lcCategory.CategoriesAxis = string.Join(",", deliveryDate);
lcCategory.ChartTitle = string.Format(categoryName);
lcCategory.Visible = true;
However, it gives me an error message at this line:
deliveryDate[i] = dt.Rows[i][1].ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
The error message is No overload method ToString takes 2 arguments. I wonder is there any other way to format it? My data type for deliveryDate in database is DateTime. Thanks in advance.
Since you are working with DataTables which are weakly typed and not recommended to be used you will need to first cast to a DateTime before being able to apply any format:
deliveryDate[i] = ((DateTime)dt.Rows[i][1]).ToString("dd/M/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
The Rows property returns an object which you need to cast.
Use:
deliveryDate[i] = ((DateTime)dt.Rows[i[1]).
ToString("dd/M/yyyy",CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
I have a problem in DataGridView .
I fill DataGridView with a datable .
there are two columns that get date time value in DataGridView I want to change this value to Persian Date at run time what should I do?
You could fill another DataTable by using PersianCalendar:
DataTable table = new DataTable();
table.Columns.Add("Persian date 1");
table.Columns.Add("Persian date 2");
var persCal = new System.Globalization.PersianCalendar();
foreach(DataRow row in dataTable1.Rows)
{
DateTime dt1 = row.Field<DateTime>(0);
DateTime dt2 = row.Field<DateTime>(1);
int year1 = persCal.GetYear(dt1);
int month1 = persCal.GetMonth(dt1);
int day1 = persCal.GetDayOfMonth(dt1);
int year2 = persCal.GetYear(dt2);
int month2 = persCal.GetMonth(dt2);
int day2 = persCal.GetDayOfMonth(dt2);
string persDate1 = string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", year1, month1, day1);
string persDate2 = string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", year2, month2, day2);
table.Rows.Add(persDate1, persDate2);
}
Then use this as datasource.
How can I add Gridview columns dynamically based on calender days?
The header of the grid should show dates 01/01/2013, 02/01/2013...and each column is a TemplateField with a Dropdownlist
I achieved this for the weekly view since the fields are constant (7 fields) but when it comes to the month view I cannot add 30 or 31 fields because I've coded in ASP not on code behind C#.
Can anybody give me some hints on how to create a month calendar in this way?
I already tried these links but it didn't help
http://geekswithblogs.net/dotNETvinz/archive/2010/08/03/adding-dynamic-rows-in-gridview-with-textbox-and-dropdownlist.aspx
http://bytes.com/topic/asp-net/answers/925328-how-display-selected-dates-database-calendar-control
You can try doing something like this:
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
DataColumn dcol = new DataColumn("ID", typeof(System.Int32));
dcol.AutoIncrement = true;
dt.Columns.Add(dcol);
int days = 0;
string selected_month = "JAN";
if (selected_month == "JAN" || selected_month == "MAR")
{ days = 31; }
else if(selected_month == "APR")
{ days = 30; }
for (int z = 1; z < days; z++)
{
dcol = new DataColumn(z.ToString(), typeof(System.String));
dt.Columns.Add(dcol);
}