Question

Getting abit of a problem I only know how to use DateTime to display my results like so:

    {

            string uri = "http://localhost:8002/Service/HireDate";
            XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(uri);
            var staff = xDoc.Descendants("HireDate")
                .Select(n => new
                {
                    StartDate = DateTime.Parse(n.Element("HireFromDate").Value), //this line
                    EndDate = DateTime.Parse(n.Element("HireToDate").Value), //this line
                    TotalDaysHired = n.Element("NumberOfDaysHired").Value,
                })
                .ToList();

            dataGrid9.ItemsSource = staff;

    }

However this outputs like this in my datagrid:

15/07/2012 00:00:00
27/07/2012 00:00:00

Is there a way to remove the time I just want the date?

Answer 1

So you want to show only the Date part of a DateTime as String? You could use DateTime.ToShortDateString() which is most readable:

StartDate = DateTime.Parse(n.Element("HireFromDate").Value).ToShortDateString()