want to get short date

noor · May 7th, 2005, 01:11 AM

hi,
i am trying to use default value for the date in my form ,so i used:
textbox1.text=new date().date
but it shows it in this format 5/7/2005 11:20:00 A.M
i want it to be in this format: 5/7/2005
how can i do that?

Prashant.k.m · May 7th, 2005, 03:38 AM

Use the Date.ToShortDateString() the set to the date your system Short Dateformat.

noor · May 7th, 2005, 11:02 PM

i tried this:
Dim MyDate As New DateTime
MyDate = DateTime.Now
TextBox1.Text = MyDate.ToShortDateString()
but still shows the long date time format?

noor · May 8th, 2005, 01:24 AM

guess what was the problem,i need to debug the project to make it work....thanks alot for your help