problem with masked text box in showing the date

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Hi Everyone,

I am using the visual studio 2010 (C#) to build a form displaying the records from a SQL table. The problem is the masked textbox. The mask I set to is short date 00/00/0000, but it displayed the dates wrong. For example, if the date in the database is "02/03/1990", it displays "23/19/90__".

The other problem I have is, sometimes there is no Date to document, so I need to leave it blank, but it would not allow me to leave the textbox control, if I don't provide it with a date! (The DB column in SQL database is set to "allow null")

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Posted 11-Aug-11 14:45pm

Saeed Jafarian

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Not Active · Answer 1 · 2011-08-11T15:34:00

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It seems as though you should check your system localization settings to get the date in the proper format.

Posted 11-Aug-11 15:34pm

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Saeed Jafarian 12-Aug-11 9:28am

I checked that before, not help

[no name] 12-Aug-11 10:00am

What about the database? How is the value being stored there?

Praveen Kullu · Answer 2 · 2011-08-11T16:03:00

Sorry for the wrong url, I have fixed it now.

There is an example here which uses masked textbox to display date just like you want. See if this helps. Just click the C# tab to view the example. The example is present all the way down in the page.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.maskedtextbox[^]

Another method:
You could also use DateTimePicker control rather than textbox. To display date in a format you want, just click the DateTimePicker control and in its properties, set Format=Short.