force a string to 2 decimal places

Question

i have a repeater item that displays a double. occasionally the double seems to be coming out with 3 decimal places like this 1165.833. im trying to force it to two decimal

Answer 1

Based on MSDN, you should be able to express the format mask within the call to DataBinder.Eval.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2d76z3ck%28VS.90%29.aspx

So essentially you should be able to do this - and force only 2 decimal places to show:

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "pricerange", "{0:##0.00}")%>