Dmitry,
You need to use the Format and Parse methods. See message #
670154 for an explanation. The example is how to format for currency. For dates you would use the ToString("d") instead.
>What do you do to present a data field in a textbox?
>I don't see a "native" way to display it as "mm/dd/yyyy".
>
>So do you just let the user type the date (maybe indicating with the label that the expected format is 'mm/dd/yyyy'?
>And then validate the date entry?
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Microsoft C# / .NET MVP
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