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How to get the date only on datetime on c# and putnit on database

I was working on an information system that gathers the students information for the teachers. One part of it is outting the value of the datetime picker on the db via command.parameters.addwithvalue. So I'm asking if there is any way to parse the datetime oicker so that there would be only date appearing on the db. Currently, date and time (set date and 12:00:00 am is showing.

In SQL2016, can use the data type date instead of datetime if you don't need the time. If the column's datatype is datetime, you will always have a time associated with it (if you just provide SQL a date for the value, it will set the time to midnight - 00:00:00).
Date and Time datatypes in SQL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/date-and-time-data-types-and-functions-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2016#DateandTimeDataTypes
If you don't wan't to (or if you can't) change the data type in the database, then on the C# side you can at least make sure that all the times are normalized to midnight from a datetimepicker by using ControlName.Value.Date where ControlName is the name of your datetimepicker control. (Having all times normalized to midnight can make SQL query writing easier when all you really need is the date but you're stuck with a datetime data type)
DateTime.Date property in .net:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime.date?view=netframework-4.7.2

Send datetimepicker text to Stored Procedue like varchar parameter with time.
And parse it in SP like this
create SP
#Date varchar(50)
as
declare #DateX smalldatetime
select #DateX=Convert(smalldatetime,substring(#Date,7,4) +'-' + substring(#Date,4,2) +'-' + substring(#Date,1,2))

I Have a C# function for this issue also;
public String ArrangeDate (string S)
{
FirstPoint = S.IndexOf(".");
SecondPoint =S.IndexOf(".",FirstPoint+1);
S= S.Substring(SecondPoint+1,4) + "-" +S.Substring(FirstPoint+1,SecondPoint-FirstPoint-1)+ "-" + S.Substring(0,FirstPoint);
return S;
}

Date is not taking proper format as Expected (dd/MM/yyyy)

I want to insert date into database in dd/MM/yyyy format. For that I have written like below:
drExpInfo[0]["CHEQUE_DT"] = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"].ToString())
? DBNull.Value : (object)Convert.ToDateTime(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"]);
And it is working perfectly fine on my local machine, but on my server it is taking format as dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss. So how to set the same format there too. Kindly suggest.

Use DateTime.ToShortDateString:
drExpInfo[0]["CHEQUE_DT"] = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"].ToString())
? DBNull.Value : (object)Convert.ToDateTime(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"]).ToShortDateString();
But, I suggest you keep the time part of your date (without using the ToShortDateString as it will insert a time set to midnight, cf. highlighted text in Oracle documentation below) when inserting and get the format you want (without time) when you're using the date.
From Oracle documentation:
Oracle Database automatically converts character values that are in the default date format into date values when they are used in date expressions.
If you specify a date value without a time component, then the default time is midnight. If you specify a date value without a date, then the default date is the first day of the current month.
Oracle Database DATE columns always contain fields for both date and time. If your queries use a date format without a time portion, then you must ensure that the time fields in the DATE column are set to midnight. You can use the TRUNC (date) SQL function to ensure that the time fields are set to midnight, or you can make the query a test of greater than or less than (<, <=, >=, or >) instead of equality or inequality (= or !=). Otherwise, Oracle Database may not return the query results you expect.
So you can convert you're date in any format you want in c#, removing the time part, Oracle will automatically set the time part of your date as midnight (00:00:00).

You can set CultureInfo;
var cultureInfo = new CultureInfo("en-GB", false).DateTimeFormat;
string result = Convert.ToDateTime(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"], cultureInfo).ToString();

Check this Discussion
Here you can find two or more ways to setting date format while insert records into database.
insert into sampleDate(Start_Date) values (to_date('25-Jun-2017','YYYYMMDD'))

Try:
public static DateTime? DateFromString(string value)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
{
return null;
}
else
{
return DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
}
DateTime? date=DateFromString(e.Record["CHEQUE_DT"]);
drExpInfo[0]["CHEQUE_DT"] = date==null? DBNull.Value : (object)date);

asp.NET and SQL Server datetime issues

I am having hard time to store date information into the datetime column of SQL Server.
I get the input from the user for three columns:
Creation Date
Preparation Date
Next Preparation Date
I use calendarextender and format the date as "yyyy/MM/dd". When all the fields have date, they are stored in the DB as for instance, 16-10-2016 (dd-MM-yyyy).
At this point I have two issues:
These columns are optional, when some of them are empty my code does not work (I assume because datetime cannot be null). To overcome this, I am using the following code snippet but still does not work.
DateTime? creationDate= null;
if (creationDateTextbox.Text != null && creationDateTextbox.Text != "")
{
creationDate= Convert.ToDateTime(creationDateTextbox.Text);
}
When I fetch the dates from DB, they are shown as 10/16/2016 (MM-dd-yyyy) which is different how I formatted it. I would like to show it in the format user enters them.

Dates do not have a format while stored in a database. It is actually usually just a very large long that counts the number of milliseconds from a set starting date.
If you want to store the format you need to stop storing it as dates and instead just treat the text as text in the database, however if you do this you won't get the advantage of sorting or filtering by a date range because it will just be seen as text.

Date time doesn't have any format You can format is as a string, suppose your DateTime type database field dt which contain date as 10/16/2016 (MM-dd-yyyy) then you can convert it
string s = dt.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd");

The answer to one of your questions is here: MSDN
You can use data annotations to format the dates that you get from your SQL DB. I'm assuming that you're using EF6; if not, you can change the field to a varchar in SSMS, and store the date as a String.
And the second, I'm unclear about, but if what you want is for your SQL DB column to be optional, you can use the Optional data annotation for that.

How to save date only from WPF datepicker using c#?

I wanted to save only date in my database. There is a table which holds dates in database and the column which holds date in type of "Date". Now I want to store date from UI,so I placed WPF DatePicker in UI which allows to select date, but whenever I try to get the data from datepicker it shows the date and time.But I want just the dates to be stored in database.
This is the thing i am doing. It is demo code by the way. Can t upload original code. But this explains the thing. you can see in the message box, it shows 14-10-2015 00:00:00 , i want this zeros to be removed.

The dateTime Picker has a property DisplayDate of Type DateTime. This type contains date and time information.
Just use picker.DisplayDate.Date this returns a DateTime value with the TimeOfDay component set to 00:00.00
Edit
Usually you use an SQL Statement to insert or update values in the database. You should use a parametrized SQL statement with an parameter of type DateTime. The SQL API will take care of the conversion form DateTime (.Net type) to your SQL Date type and strip all time information away. It is a good idea to set the time component to 00:00:00 however to avoid any strange "roundings".

Use ToShortDateString() at the end something like:
var date = datePicker.SelectedDate.Value.Date.ToShortDateString();
MessageBox.Show(date.ToString());

To Get Data that its type is Date in C#

In my SQL database, I have BeginDate column of type date (so I want to get only day,month,year).
I add data into database in C#.
I look at Table_Data and everything is fine (for example BeginDate = 05/04/2014).
But when I get this data from database in C# with
string a= dt.Rows[i]["BeginDate"].ToString()
result is: a= 05/04/2014 12:00:00 AM
Why?
I can remove hour in string a with any methods. But why? I want to get only 05/04/2014 from database.

This is a display problem, not a data problem. Use the Formatting features of DateTime.ToString() to display the date in the format that you want.
If the data is coming out of the database in string form, use DateTime.Parse on it first.
Reference
Standard Date and Time Formats
Custom Date and Time Formats