MaskedTextBox messes up my short date

[Willie Li]

I am using MaskedTextBox with mask "00/00/0000" to display short dates. If a
date is 6/6/2008, the MaskedTextBox would display 66/20/08. If the date
input is 06/06/2008, then the display of the text box is correct.

Is there a simple way to get around this problem?

Thanks.

Willie

[VadimKa]

Problem: If I bind a DateTime field to a masked text box with the default
short date mask, the value fails to recognize a leading 0 and shifts all
other digits one place to the left.

Solution: Select the MaskedTextBox. Expand Databindings in Properties.
Click on the ellipses for “(Advanced)”

A dialog box appears where you can set a custom format. Choose custom and
select MM/dd/yyyy as the custom format.

[Willie Li]

The problem is that I can't set the binding in the properties, since I am
using LINQ and everything is done at run-time. I wrote a simple function to
convert the format to get around the problem, though.

I do think this is a bug in VS.

[husainac]

Willie, I am stuck with the same problem.

Has anyone found a solution to the date display problem of MaskedTextBox
(without databinding) ?

[husainac]

I found the solution in the following line of code (VB.net)

Convert.ToDateTime(DataRow.Item("Date")).ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")

[ionut]

"husainac" <husa...@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el mensaje de
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[AndyW]

For C# I wrote a simple method / function that takes a date and returns a
string in the format of mm/dd/yyyy .

public string formatDateAsMMDDYYYY(DateTime d)
{
string result = "";
result = d.Month.ToString().Trim().PadLeft(2, '0');
result += d.Day.ToString().Trim().PadLeft(2, '0');
result += d.Year.ToString().Trim();

return result;

[multi...@gmail.com]

Perfect, thanks VadimKa, that is exactly what I needed.

[abhisheks...@gmail.com]

Did you get a solution to this???