Basics: DateTime.ToString() format

One of the most useful overloads of the ToString() method is the ability to provide a format for the object you’re converting to string.

This is of particular interest when dealing with DateTime objects. If, for example, you had a DateTime object as such:

DateTime dNow = DateTime.Now;

and you wanted to display it in the following format:

31 December 1999

you could easily do so, like this:

string sNow = dNow.ToString(“dd MM yyyy”);