custom format dates in MonthCalendar control

I'm having trouble formatting output the way that I want... I want the label to read as yyyymmdd, eg 20040716

with the code below I get close... the days and the months are not forced to 2 digits.

How does one apply a format to the date so that it will always be in the desired format of yyyymmdd

Thanks,

Paul

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private void monthCalendar1_DateSelected(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DateRangeEventArgs e)
{
label1.Text= "http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/daily-index/company." + monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.Year + monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.Month + monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.Day + ".idx";
}

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custom format dates in MonthCalendar control

i_dachev
hi paul..

by the way.. would you happen to know how to create a search based on dates ..
he.lin
I think you need monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.ToString("yyyyMMdd") see the help on DateTime.ToString(...) methods, SelectionStart is of this class.
In your code you must add .ToString("D2") to both Month and Day to force those integers into a double digit string format, see NumberFormatInfo for details (I currently can't find the place where things like "D2" is mentioned, PTB's don't be that obscure!)
barak
The .ToString("D2") worked perfectly. I think that I had tried .ToString("dd") and got a literal, so thanks for pointing this out to me...guess I was too tired at the time to think straight on this one.

Thanks,

Paul
brajoh
Kind of a vague question so here's a vague answer

The calendar will return a date when you click on it so you have to write code that will "capture" that value and then use it where-ever else in your code that you need it.

For example:

Create your Search button...add some date condition if you want (this one says "If the selected date is after today, then error message. If it is before today, then do a search."
The search all depends on what you are looking at... a datagrid, a text box, another control of some sort....

Paul

private void button_Search_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if(monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.Date > DateTime.Today)
{
MessageBox.Show("You cannot select a date in the future.");
}
else if(monthCalendar1.SelectionStart.Date <= DateTime.Today)
{
//Do a search here
}
}
custom format dates in MonthCalendar control

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