Question

I have a date in a DataTable (dt). How to read a Date from a DataTable into a textbox

I can read a string in fine:

    tbEvent.Text = dt.Rows[0].Field<String>(0); 

I tried this but I get an error:

Unable to cast object of type ‘System.DateTime’ to type
‘System.String’.

        tbDate.Text = dt.Rows[0].Field<DateTime>(1);

Regards
Tea

Answer 1

try

 tbDate.Text = dt.Rows[0].Field<DateTime>(1).ToString();

Textbox.Text only accepts string values – so you need to convert.

Updated

To format the string to show specific values you can use the custom format strings – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

so the above becomes

 tbDate.Text = dt.Rows[0].Field<DateTime>(1).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

for db date 12/23/2012 12:25:45 it will produce 23/12/2012.