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?

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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".

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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.

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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.

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

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

This should work

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