'C# - format DataGridView date into messagebox

I have a datagridview connected to a sql database and everything works fine. I want to show the field "Date" (datetime on the database) formatted just as "dd/MM/yyyy" on a MessageBox.

I have it like this:

 MessageBox.Show(dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells[4].Value.ToString());

and it shows:

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What can I add or edit in the code to remove the hours?

c++sharpdatabasedatagridviewmessagebox


Solution 1:[1]

Fixed it:

string message = (dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells[4].Value.ToString());
MessageBox.Show(message.Remove(10).ToString());

What this does is remove the last characters of the string, in this case the characters being the time

Solution 2:[2]

Pass correct Date format i.e "dd/MM/yyyy" as a parameter to ToString(),

//As per your comment it seems type of ..Cells[4].Value is DateTime?
string dateValue =  dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells[4].Value?.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") ?? "No Date Found";
MessageBox.Show(dateValue);

Use correct format for Month,

mm - Prints minute (00 - 59)
MM - Prints month (00 - 12)

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Solution 1 Prasad Telkikar
Solution 2

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