How to only display date from datetime?

Question

This is one of my column in the gridview to display StartDate:

column.Expression(i=> i.StartDate).Alignment(ColumnAlignmentCssType.Center).Title("Start Date");

How can i only display the Date without the time,,because right now its displaying date together with time.

thanks

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Answer

There are a lot of options to complete this task. Which require a little understanding concept of yours and would always help you in many scenarios. First of all you can do so using the build-in functions. The DateTime object has the following two functions to provide date-only string to you. dateTime1.ToLongDateString(); dateTime1.ToShortDateString(); Now let us get a little tricky. DateTime object supports formatting using string based format. For example you can get the full notation of Month by triggering the following ToString function. dateTime1.ToString(MMMM); The above function would return the month for example today ( 5/20/2015 ) it would result in May. You can use other similar commands and get the result so to get the date only value. Run this function dateTime1.ToString(MMMM dd yyyy); Above function would result in  May 20 2015 . You can use the similar format commands to get date (or time) based output. :-)

Nanhe Siddique · Answer

hi shosho Try this. In the GridView tasks (smart tags?) click on Edit Columns. In the Selected Fields click on the date field. Then in the right half (the BoundField properties) find DataFormatString near the bottom. Enter {0:d} (without quotes) for the DataFormatString. it think it may help you