Show only Date in DataGridView Column

Question

I have a field as DateTime, I want to display only date( without time ) in my datagridview c#. I get the datetime. example: 22.03.2016 00:00:00 Any help would be appreciated. I

Answer 1

The problem is your column is not of type DateTime so when you apply formatting, it doesn't work.

Take a look at the method that creates the data table, you created the columns using dataTable.Columns.Add(prop.Name); which it means the DataType of column is string and formatting will not apply on column. (As I guessed previously)

Note

• You don't need to convert a List to a DataTable if you want to show it in DataGridView, it's enough to set it as DataSource of the grid.
• To format a DateTime column to show only Date part, it's enough to set DefaultCellStyle.Format of that column to yyyy/MM/dd.
• As a quick fix in your method, you can replace this line of code dataTable.Columns.Add(prop.Name); with this line of code: dataTable.Columns.Add(prop.Name, prop.PropertyType); which uses data type of property as data type of column.

Answer 2

There is an easier way. Next time, if you add data to DataGridView via clicking the little triangle at the right-top corner of DataGridView;

Edit your XXXDataSet.Designer according to:

this.columnYYY = new global::System.Data.DataColumn("YYY", typeof(**string**), null, global::System.Data.MappingType.Element);

Change String to DateTime. Problem solved enjoy. :)