How can I show the date and day in customized way in texboxes?

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I want to show the day name in short form like there MON represent Monday as in asp.net. I want to show the current day on the system of the user like this. I'm using Ajax Control Toolkit to show the calendar while DayNameFoemat is used in the ASP:Calender tag. So I'm unable to do this manually because I want to make it customized way. I also tried to show only date in textbox like this

TextBox1.Text = DateTime.Today.ToString("d");

But it is not giving me the desired output. I want to set the four textboxes for the day,date,month and year and show them separately but I'mm unable to get them in this way. How an I get rid of from this problem? Is it possible or I'm just dreaming?

Is there any way when user select the date from the Ajax calender then all fields changed regarding that.

XML

<ajax:CalendarExtender TargetControlID="TextBox1"
            runat="server" PopupButtonID="image1" TodaysDateFormat="dd"
                PopupPosition="Right">
            </ajax:CalendarExtender>

Posted 14-Nov-11 20:41pm

Ajvirk

Updated 14-Nov-11 21:00pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Nov-11 2:55am

Not clear what was your idea behind using the format "d"...
--SA

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-11-14T20:52:00

Solution 1

For abreviated day name, try:

C#

TextBox1.Text = DateTime.Today.ToString("ddd");

There is a complete list of the date/time formatting codes here: Formatting a DateTime for display - format string description[^]

Posted 14-Nov-11 20:52pm

OriginalGriff

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Ajvirk 15-Nov-11 3:02am

The first solution working fine for me but I updated my question as what I exactly need to do. if that is possible in the same field or I should have to use a hide panel to show them separate.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Nov-11 3:03am

Correct, a 5. Some more detail as well as alternative (DateTimePicker) -- in my solution.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-11-14T21:02:00

Custom formatting of System.DateTime is simple. First, you can use different ToSting methods, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.tostring.aspx[^].
Formatting:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx[^].

But look for some alternatives. Why do you need all your text boxes at all? Consider using ASP.NET DateTimePicker! See:
http://www.markbeaton.com/SoftwareInfo.aspx?ID=868292da-e93e-4e85-b455-41263ed15cd5[^],
http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2011/05/15/timepicker-nice-extension-to-jquery-ui-datepicker.aspx[^],
on CodeProject: DateTimePicker Web Control[^].

Enjoy!

—SA

Prince Antony G · Answer 3 · 2011-11-14T21:59:00

Solution 3

C#

TextBox1.Text =DateTime.Now.ToString("ddd MMM dd, yyy");

Posted 14-Nov-11 21:59pm

Prince Antony G

Morgs Morgan · Answer 4 · 2011-11-14T22:25:00

Solution 4

See this link below, alot of DateTime formats. Knock yourself out!
- http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View00FF7904-B510-468C-A2C8-F859AA20581F.htm[^]

Happy coding,
Morgs

Posted 14-Nov-11 22:25pm

Morgs Morgan

Dipankar Basu · Answer 5 · 2011-11-15T07:47:00

TextBox1.Text = CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate.ToString("dd"); // Date (13)
TextBox2.Text = CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate.ToString("ddd"); // Day (Sun)
TextBox3.Text = CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate.ToString("MMMM"); // Month (November) & MMM - Short Format ( Jul, Jan)
TextBox4.Text = CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate.ToString("yyyy"); // Year (2011)

You can also use DateTime.ToDay or DateTime.Now instead of "CalendarExtender1.SelectedDate"