How to set datetimepicker value to only date in (.NET)

I have DateTimePicker on my form and I set a value to the custom format property to "dd/MM/yyyy" ant when I run this code:

MessageBox.Show(dateTimePicker1.Value.ToString());

I get this value : "3/26/2010 1:26 PM".

How I can remove the time part from value.

I know we can use this method

dateTimePicker1.Value.ToShortDateString();

but I want to set the value property to this format "dd/MM/y开发者_开发知识库yyy" so the output will be like this "26/3/2010", because I want to store the value in my DB (SQL)

How I can do that?

Use dateTimePicker1.Value.Date to get the Date part of this DateTime value.

Do notice though, if you mean to parse into strings, that using dateTimePicker1.Value.Date.ToString will result with the "26/03/2010 00:00:00" string, while using something like MyString = CStr(dateTimePicker1.Value.Date) will result in MyString being "26/03/2010".

If you have string as datatype in database:

  dateTimePicker1.Value.Date.ToString("d");

If datatype is DateTime:

  dateTimePicker1.Value.Date;

Both will return date in dd/mm/yyyy format without time.

I assume you initialized the DateTimePicker with the current date and time:

dateTimePicker1.Value = DateTime.Now;

Instead, initialize it with the current date:

dateTimePicker1.Value = DateTime.Today;

What happens is as follows:

• If the user selects a date, then the DateTimePicker.Value property will always return a date with no time of day component, and DateTime.Kind set to Unspecified.

• If the user doesn't select a date, then the DateTimePicker.Value property will return the value used to initialize the DateTimePicker.Value property. If you initialize it with DateTime.Now, it will have a time of day component, and DateTime.Kind will be set to Local.

just MessageBox.Show(dateTimePicker1.Value.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"));

dateTimePicker1.Value.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy")

This should work

You can set DateTimePicker "Format" to "Short" in Properties window (under Appearance)