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how can i print dateofbirth as date instead of datetime

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  1 year ago

  by dumbo701

  Thomas Jones

  , United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  i am using a property to get dateofbirth from a textbox and i am printing the property in another class

  by using the obj.propertyname for dateofbirth but i am able to print it as only datetime only i am not getting only the date since it is hard to read it as for eg 1/1/2000 12:00AM i am getting like this

  but i want it to get as only 1/1/2000 i am also using only the datatype date i know that this will print along with datetime but i want to know whether can i make it print only the date

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  1 year ago

  by Zorro_ot

  Oliver Tell

  Hamburg, Germany

  Joined 3 years ago

  I'm not sure if you mean this, but please have a look at this code:

  Public Class Form1
  
      Private myDate As DateTime
      Private msg As String
  
      Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
          myDate = Now
          msg = "Date of Today :  " & myDate.Date & ControlChars.NewLine
          msg = msg & "Time now :  " & myDate.ToLongTimeString
          MsgBox(msg)
      End Sub
  
  End Class

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  1 year ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago

  Don't use FormatDateTime.

  lblDateOfBirth.Text = dateOfBirth.ToShortDateString()

  The Date type has ToShortDateString, ToLongDateString, ToShortTimeString and ToLongTimeString methods, plus it has a ToString method that will accept any standard or custom format string.  ToShortDateString is equivalent to ToString("d").
  

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