New Line character storage in ntext field in SQL 2000

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Hi there,
I have a multi line text box in a data entry form. The data entered in this field is being stored as ntext column in a table.
This data is visible in other form in DataGridView. Where the newline character is replaced by ugly, obnoxious "squares". I remember having used this with oracle blob column where it did not create a porblem.
Agagin when this fetched in a multiline textbox for editing purpose it displays "squares".
Hw do I handle this. I tried googling but not much to my rescue. Any pointers or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

Posted 24-Jan-10 21:42pm

Siddhartha S.

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Abhishek Sur · Answer 1 · 2010-01-24T23:29:00

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Use a TemplateField and replace the newline character with <br/>.

<%# Eval("COL1").ToString().Replace("\r\n","<br/>") %>

Something like this ... ;)

Posted 24-Jan-10 23:29pm

Abhishek Sur