Formatting the date and Time so that it appears on every web page.

I have been trying to insert the date and time so that it appears on every page within the website. I do not know anything about Visual Basic and or C# but I'm slowing getting the feel using VWD 2008/ASP.NET3.5 so please bear with my ignorance when referencing codes as to where the code should go and what language is the code in.

I managed to come up with the date and time but it show in numbers.

Example: I would love to have the date and time displayed as follows.
Monday, September 22, 2008.

All I'm able to do is 09/092008, and it's boring.

 I have tried searching this forum but as someone very very new to ASP.NET, it gets confusing when you don't know which way is the best way to do something.



Any suggestions/Help.

Thanks very much.

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Well, thanks to old-fashioned VB, VB.NET still has the simplest way to do this:

FormatDateTime( Date(), DateFormat.LongDate )

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a912f2a0(VS.80).aspx

If you want to do it in C# and/or be more ".NET-ish", you should use the System.DateTime structure.

So something like
   System.DateTime.Today.ToLongDateString()
will work in either language.

You can also get very, very explicit and get all kinds of weird formats, if you like:
   System.DateTime.Today.ToString("dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy")
again, works in either language.

TONS of documentation and examples on this, so hard to see how you missed it. When in doubt, go to the source: MSDN. Example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

For the complete docs on DateTime:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...e_members.aspx

Thanks for the response but where in the page do you write the code? In the aspx page or the aspx.cs page?

I was hoping that since Visual Web developer had these web controls, it would also have a Date and Time web control you can just drag to the stage in design view.
I'm still learning the language and it's easy when I can add a control and see how the code works, just like the book I just bought.

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The usual answer to all programming questions: "It depends".

You *could* do it right on your .aspx page.

Right in the middle of the HTML and the ASP.NET tags, you could simply do
    <%= System.DateTime.Today.ToLongDateString()%>
And it will be just dumped, as text, right out into your page.

But if you want it to appear in a box or a label or or or...well, "It depends." Yes, you could do it in code behind by doing something like
    myDateTimeLabel.Text = System.DateTime.Today.ToLongDateString();
but I'm reluctant to say more without knowing your specifics.

I'm afraid you're going to have to begin to learn *some* of the fundamentals of programming. ASP.NET was never designed to be a 100% "drag and drop" environment. Visual Studio helps you out a lot, but it won't (and can't) do everything for you.

If you aren't working your way through some of the tutorials at http://msdn.microsoft.com/Express already, it's time to start doing so.