fill a mask textbox with current date and time

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i am a student to this programming world
I am doing a csharp project but the problem here i am facing is mask textbox filling with current date. and another mask textbox with current time
like
25/12/2012 and
wit
10:10 AM
i have made this but some error is coming.

maskedTextBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();

Quote:
but it is filling like this
12/62/012_
how to make this as
06/12/2012

Posted 6-Dec-12 1:37am

shaikh-adil

Updated 7-Apr-20 6:57am

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[no name] 6-Dec-12 7:39am

Whats your problem ???

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 8:18am

problem?
how can i fill the mask textbox with current date with this format
25/12/2012

ridoy 6-Dec-12 7:53am

which error?you need to mention that..

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 8:16am

its of bool conversion. but can you suggest answer how to fill masked textbox with 25/12/2012 this type of date

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 8:15am

What's the error?

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 8:17am

dont concentrate on error sir.
can you suggest how to fill mask textbox with date?

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 8:18am

Sure. maskedTextBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 8:36am

it fills the msktextbox with 12/62/012_ how to make this
06/12/2012

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 8:38am

Sounds like your culture is set differently.

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 8:53am

sorry if i am disturbing you but
what to set then?

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 8:54am

Is it ASP.Net? If so, you set the Culture on the current thread. That way DateTime.Now will come out in the format you want.

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 9:01am

nope. it is winform :(

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 9:05am

Well, it's the same concept. I haven't done winforms in years but I'm sure it likely the same thing. Look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8952400/how-to-set-application-wide-cultural-information-in-a-winform-application and see if that helps.

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 9:32am

nope sir i didint understood.
i dont know how to do it

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 9:38am

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-CA")
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-CA")

but just put in whatever culture you want.

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 9:45am

but what is this culture???
i am hearing this first time sir

ZurdoDev 6-Dec-12 9:57am

You said your date is going in with Month first and you want to make the day be first, right? You want dd-mm-yy instead. So, set the culture to some culture that supports that.

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 10:06am

ohkay. i got you thanks sir

ahmad zrein 6-Dec-12 9:00am

maskedTextBox1.Text = convert.todatetime(DateTime.Now.ToString());

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 9:17am

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.DateTime' to 'string"
this error is coming

4 solutions

Solution 3

in the form right click properties

custom format yyyy/MM/dd

Posted 6-Dec-12 5:23am

ahmad zrein

Solution 4

This is the best solution i ever found
dtpFrom.Text = System.DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();

Posted 7-Apr-20 6:58am

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Updated 7-Apr-20 7:15am

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BC @ CV · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06T04:42:00

Solution 2

Try this:

C#

maskedTextBox1.Text = string.Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", DateTime.Now);

Posted 6-Dec-12 4:42am

BC @ CV

CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-06T03:37:00

Solution 1

maskedTextBox1.Text = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now).ToString();

Posted 6-Dec-12 3:37am

CHill60

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shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 9:40am

by your code
this is the output 12/62/012_
how to make this as
06/12/2012

CHill60 6-Dec-12 9:51am

Works fine for me - What is the Mask property on your text box set to?

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 10:01am

the mask propoerty is set to short date
i.e
00/00/0000

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 10:05am

sir can you comment and solve my problem
i have a discussion here in comment. just take a look of comment in this page please
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/503496/showingplusimageplusonplustab

CHill60 6-Dec-12 10:38am

You could try maskedTextBox1.Culture = new CultureInfo("en-GB"); prior to putting the data into the maskedtextbox (you will need to use System.Globalization namespace).

Silly question from me ... does it absolutely have to be a *masked* text box - could you just use an ordinary text box and format the date e.g. textBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

shaikh-adil 6-Dec-12 11:05am

yess you are right but i prevoiusly thought about maskedtextbox and for editing purpose mask textbox is good rather using textbox.
when you erase the text in simple textbox it erases all the things and in masked textbox it olny erases the digits. it is less occurency of error that a user misunderstood to enter the text in masked textbox than the textbox

CHill60 6-Dec-12 11:08am

Perhaps a DatePicker might be better then
I like BC @ CV's solution below as well

phil.o 6-Dec-12 11:49am

Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now)
=> do you really understand what this command is doing ?
You convert a DateTime to a DateTime... sorry, but this is simply useless :)

CHill60 6-Dec-12 11:55am

thanks for spotting the typo - I was actually intending to correct ahmad zrein's comment and got distracted by some real work. Ironically it works so it's not completely useless ;-p

phil.o 6-Dec-12 12:13pm

Yes it is :)
The correct way in this particular case would be maskedTextBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();