Get rid of leading spaces in date

[EwS]

'6/5/2007' displays as ' 6/ 5/2007' in my dateTimepicker.
How do I get rid of the leading spaces? What custom format can I use?

Thank you.

 

[computerjin]

You can use this format specifier.

"Short Date"

Hope it helps.

 

[EwS]

I tried this before:
Format - Short

but it doesn't remove the leading spaces.

Right now I'm using this:
Format - Custom
CustomFormat - MM/dd/yyyy

It displays the date as '06/05/2007', so I don't have a problem with the leading spaces, however I would prefer not to display zeroes.

 

[computerjin]

Try M/d/yyyy

Hope it helps.

 

[EwS]

I already tried that before and it displays the date the same as MM/dd/yyyy.

 

[computerjin]

You need to code these two lines to get what you want.

   Me.DateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "M/d/yyyy"
   Me.DateTimePicker1.Format = System.Windows.Forms.DateTimePickerFormat.Custom

Hope it helps.

 

[EwS]

Thanks for your suggestion, but I still cannot get it to work. I put that code in the sub that gets executed when the form is loaded and I even tried to put it in the ValueChange event for my DateTimePicker. What am I doing wrong?

 

[onpnt]

Have you tried putting the code directly in the Form_Load?

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[EwS]

Same result -> ' 6/ 5/2007' instead of '6/5/2007'.