Formating the Data in a Text Box

[Guest]

Just like the way we set the format for a cell in a excel sheet....how can i
format the data in my text box...
I want to know how to format a text box for the following data
1. Month/Date/Year = MM/DD/YYYY
2. Time = Hours: Mins

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Vishnu,

That depends what the culture is that is used. The OS for which are .Net
have the dates work on the way the culture is set in the setting of the
system.

Therefore first what do you mean with MM/DD/YYYY as month/date/year

The nearest date description I know is MM/dd/yyyy which means month as 2
ciphers, day 2 ciphers, year 4 ciphers. I assume that you mean with date,
day however to be sure.

So maybe can you make this clear, before you get a bunch of answers which do
in fact not work.

Cor

 

[Guest]

Cor,
You are right...MM/DD/YYYY is Month/Date/Year...I want to know if there are
any fuctions in VB.NET which can be used to format a text box...Let me know

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

You are right...MM/DD/YYYY is Month/Date/Year...I want to know if there

are
any fuctions in VB.NET which can be used to format a text box...Let me
know

And how should the date than be presented, I asked you if you did mean day,
however now you confess that it is date, what should than that DD look like?

Cor

 

[Guest]

Cor

The user will be entering the date for Example 10/31/2005..

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

You still did not gave an answer however have a look to this in a simple
format.

TextBox1.Text = (CDate("31-12-2005")).ToString("d")

This is in my culture.
Have a look at this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...globalizationdatetimeformatinfoclasstopic.asp

In version 2005 there is the maskedtextbox

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.maskedtextbox.mask

I hope this helps,

Cor