Display Date Without the Time

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I am trying to display the date from SQL server database into a window form textbox as "dd/MM/yyyy", but it shows the time also.

Any idea how to avoide this.

Thanks for the help

[dwhawley]

use the formatdatetime() or the format()

for example

textbox1.text = formatdatetime(dteDateandTime, DateFormat.ShortDate)

or

textbox1.text = format(dteDateandTime, "MM/dd/yyyy")

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Databinding removes the format !!

Me.txtRegDate.DataBindings.Add("Text", myDS.Tables("Member"), "RegDate")

[dwhawley]

in cases like this, i have traditionally modified my sql statement to return a string representation of the date i want to look at. the problem with this approach, however, is if you try to sort by that column, its sorted by the string, not the date. i have been looking for a way around this, but still havent found one. sorry.

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Thank u for your help

[adsc]

dwhawley,

This solves the problem perfectly, look at the Format and Parse events.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformsbindingclassformattopic.asp




Originally posted by dwhawley
in cases like this, i have traditionally modified my sql statement to return a string representation of the date i want to look at. the problem with this approach, however, is if you try to sort by that column, its sorted by the string, not the date. i have been looking for a way around this, but still havent found one. sorry.

[dwhawley]

nice find and thanks for the return message. my issue has been formatting values within a datagrid and it appears that this is how you do it


thanks