>Hello All, I would like to be able to show dates in the format: dd-mm-yy without setting the Windows shortdate to dd-mm-yy ( I'm using a masked textbox for input ), however, if I populate the Text property using
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>mytextbox.Text = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
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>I get 11-10-20, I don't know the implications of changing the Windows shortdate setting so would like to work around it for now, many thanks.

Pete,

You can use

mytextbox.Text = Datetime.Now.ToString("dd-MM-yy")