>I am a beginner at Visual Basic. I've having problem with a text box formatting a date how I want it to. I want the date in the format mm/dd/yyyy. I go into the properties of the textbox and set the DataFormat field to that date format. The following code example will not use the format of the text box.
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>myDate = #4/5/2001#
>Text1.Text = myDate
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>The above code displays the date in the textbox as m/d/yy instead of the 4 digit year i want to show.
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>The following is working for now but i think there should be a better way.
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>myDate = #4/5/2001#
>Text1.Text = Format(myDate,"mm/dd/yyyy")
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The DataFormat property is only to format the display (not the input) of bound (to a database using DataSource and DataField properties) fields.

Consider using the DateTimePicker control for date input.