Dateformat on databound textboxes?

[Graham Blandford]

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how I go about setting a custom date format (or any other
format for that matter) to a textbox that has a databinding?

In VB6 I would do something like 'set text1.format = myformat', but that
isn;t a format property in VB.NET.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks,
Graham

[William Ryan eMVP]

You can use Format directly on a value, but if I understand your question
correctly, you'll want to add a handler for the .Format and .Parse events.
This explains it pretty well but let me know if you have any problems.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ntexttopic.asp

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Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how I go about setting a custom date format (or any other format for that matter) to a textbox that has a databinding?

In VB6 I would do something like 'set text1.format = myformat', but that
isn;t a format property in VB.NET.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks,
Graham