Help, I have two Masked TextBoxs I have formatted to use the short date format.

How do I preload both textboxes with todays date?

Also How can I validate the textbox dates assuimg USA date format mm/dd/yyyy?

I've tried the IsDate() function and sometimes 7/32/20 will pass.

Just set the textbox using:

textBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("mm/dd/yyyy");

When you go to validate the text, you can use DateTime.ParseExact to verify that it's a valid date:

bool validDate = true;
try {
DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(textBox1.Text, "mm/dd/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
catch (FormatException)
{
validDate = false;
}

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Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com

I just tried textBox1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString("mm/dd/yyyy");

I get "29/17/2009"

BTW:I'm using Visual Basic 2005 .NET if that helps.

Oops - sorry, the format should be:

"MM/dd/yyyy"

"mm" is minutes, "MM" is months. See MSDN for details .

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Reed Copsey, Jr. - http://reedcopsey.com