Custom DateTime formats when using DataSet.WriteXml in .NET

Question

I\'ve got an issue where I am writing a DataSet to XML that has a column of type DateTime and I want to control the output format.

DataSet data = LoadDataSet         


        

Answer 1

Apply XSLT transformation to DataSet: (from MSDN) (I believe you will find XSLT example to convert DateTime format, or see post on SO regarding XSLT and DateTIme formats)

DataSet custDS = new DataSet("CustomerDataSet");
XmlDataDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDataDocument(custDS); 

XslTransform xslTran = new XslTransform();
xslTran.Load("transform.xsl");

XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter("xslt_output.html", 
  System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

xslTran.Transform(xmlDoc, null, writer);
writer.Close();