property Column.FireFormatColumn as Boolean

Retrieves or sets a value that indicates whether the control fires FormatColumn to format the caption of a cell hosted by column.

TypeDescription
Boolean A boolean expression that indicates whether the control fires the FireFormatColumn event for the cells in the column.

By default, the FireFormatColumn property  is false. The FormatColumn event is fired only if the FireFormatColumn property of the Column is True. The FormatColumn event lets the user to provide the cell's caption before it is displayed on the group's list. For instance, the FormatColumn event is very useful when the column cells contains prices ( numbers ), and you want to display that column formatted as currency, like $50 instead 50.