The most important three properties of the BoundField class are the DataField, DataFormatString, and HeaderText properties. <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>Show BoundField</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:GridView id="grdProducts" DataSourceID="srcProducts" AutoGenerateColumns="false" Runat="server"> <Columns> <asp:BoundField DataField="Title" HeaderText="Product Title" /> <asp:BoundField DataField="Director" HeaderText="Product Director" /> <asp:BoundField DataField="Totals" DataFormatString="{0:c}" HtmlEncode="false" HeaderText="Box Office Totals" /> </Columns> </asp:GridView> <asp:SqlDataSource id="srcProducts" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Products %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM Products" Runat="server" /> </div> </form> </body> </html> File: Web.config <configuration> <connectionStrings> <add name="Products" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS; AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|MyDatabase.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" /> </connectionStrings> </configuration>