Newbie needs help on date and time controls on form

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M Skabialka - 22 Aug 2006 15:19 GMT

I am trying to create my first Visual Basic program, and placed text fields
on the form which I want to show the date on one and the time on the other.
Under properties I am totally lost as to where to format the information in
the text box as date or time. I've looked under appearance, font, behavior,
data, databindings, design, layout, location and size, and none show where
the field can be text, a number, date or time, etc. What incredibly obvious
thing am I missing? Or did I place the wrong control on the form in the
first place?
Mich

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Des - 22 Aug 2006 15:25 GMT

The text box is just for displaying text. you have to format the text
youself.

Desmond

> I am trying to create my first Visual Basic program, and placed text fields
> on the form which I want to show the date on one and the time on the other.
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> first place?
> Mich

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M Skabialka - 22 Aug 2006 15:32 GMT

How?
Format(Now(), "mm,dd,yyyy")
Doesn't work

> The text box is just for displaying text. you have to format the text
> youself.
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>> first place?
>> Mich

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Des - 22 Aug 2006 15:39 GMT

Dim d As Date
Dim s As String
d = Now()
s = Format(d, "ddd dd mmm yyyy")

Check out the Format function

Desmond.

> How?
> Format(Now(), "mm,dd,yyyy")
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> >> first place?
> >> Mich

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M Skabialka - 22 Aug 2006 16:06 GMT

Maybe I should try to explain what I want to do as my first project:

I am creating a simple form with three labels and three text boxes. The
first label and box are for the start time, the second for the end time, the
third for the difference. I thought this would be a really easy first
project - I press the first button and the time is set on the first box.
When I press the second button the end time shows in the second box. At
that time it calculates the time difference in minutes, so that I can time
the number of minutes I work on something.
Using your code I get an error on the last line:
Dim d As Date
Dim s As String
d = Now()
s = Format(d, "ddd dd mmm yyyy")
txtStartTime = s 'txtStartTime is the name of my text box

The 's' is highlighted and the error is:
Value of type 'string'cannot be converted to 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'

I am sure there is a similar function for time as there is for date. There
must be a very simple solution to this.
Thanks,
Mich

> Dim d As Date
> Dim s As String
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>> >> first place?
>> >> Mich

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dotnetman - 24 Aug 2006 15:39 GMT

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> Using your code I get an error on the last line:
> Dim d As Date
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> Thanks,
> Mich

I don't use VB, but I am sure you cannot set the TextBox control to a string
value. You need to use the Text property of the TextBox.

Try using this:

Dim d As Date
Dim s As String
d = Now()
s = Format(d, "ddd dd mmm yyyy")
txtStartTime.Text = s

Look at the Examples and HowTos in the VB help.

Regards
<snip>

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