How to enter date in the text box?

[Mehbs]

Hi guys:

I am very new to C# and would really appreciate if someone please help.
This is my first project and I am learning c#.

I have to create a form where user enters start date and end date. I will
use text boxes for both dates.

How can I format so user does not have to enter slashes and it display in
date format? ie. 01/01/2007.

Thank you.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Hi guys:

I am very new to C# and would really appreciate if someone please help.
This is my first project and I am learning c#.

I have to create a form where user enters start date and end date. I will
use text boxes for both dates.

How can I format so user does not have to enter slashes and it display in
date format? ie. 01/01/2007.

Why text boxes for the date? There are other controls that are designed
to specifically support this type of validated entry. I would suggest a
DateTimePicker with a custom format of MM/dd/yyyy. If the
DateTimePicker is too restricted then a MaskedTextBox with mask set to
00/00/0000 should also work.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

You better use the DateTimePicked and/or maskedTextBox

 

[Mehbs]

Thanks guys.

Now how do I get rid of time. I just need the date.
For example my dateticket name is dtperiod. When I try to display dtperiod,
it displays date and time.

Thanks

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Thanks guys.

Now how do I get rid of time. I just need the date.
For example my dateticket name is dtperiod. When I try to display dtperiod,
it displays date and time.

How are you displaying it? If you use DateTime.ToShortDateString, that
should do it. Or pass in a custom format to ToString. Ex:

Console.WriteLine (dtperiod.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy"));

If you want just the date component you can access dtperiod.Date. Note
that it will still contain the time elements but they will be set to
00:00:00.