Quick question, I have a datetimepicker control in my application. I only need the date in mm/dd/yyyy format. I set a variable to pull the DateTimePicker1.value and it returns mm/dd/yyyy hh:mms and AM or PM. I want to truncate the time portion. How do I do that? Thanks.

The value property of a DateTimePicker control is a DateTime datatype, which contains both date and time information.

If you want to use this value for display purposes, then you are going to use it in a string format anyway. You can format a DateTime object however you like when calling its .ToString() method.

For example, this would give you the desired value:

You can also set the datetimepicker controls formatting properties so the appearance of the date in the actual DTP control also matches this format. You can do this at design time by setting the DTPs Format property to Custom and the CustomFormat property to MM/dd/yyyy

Note the capital MM is because lowercase mm is for minutes in date/time formatting literals.

Also note that this DOES NOT change the fact that the value property is still going to have both a date part and time part to it.

The value property of a DateTimePicker control is a DateTime datatype, which contains both date and time information.

If you want to use this value for display purposes, then you are going to use it in a string format anyway. You can format a DateTime object however you like when calling its .ToString() method.

For example, this would give you the desired value:

You can also set the datetimepicker controls formatting properties so the appearance of the date in the actual DTP control also matches this format. You can do this at design time by setting the DTPs Format property to Custom and the CustomFormat property to MM/dd/yyyy

Note the capital MM is because lowercase mm is for minutes in date/time formatting literals.

Also note that this DOES NOT change the fact that the value property is still going to have both a date part and time part to it.