WPF Binding StringFormat Short Date String

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I would like to use Short Date named string format in WPF   I tried something like    lt TextBlock Text   Binding Date  StringFormat  Short Date      gt    How to do this

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Some DateTime StringFormat samples I found useful  Lifted from C  Examples  DateTime dt   new DateTime 2008  3  9  16  5  7  123    String Format   0 y yy yyy yyyy    dt        8 08 008 2008    year String Format   0 M MM MMM MMMM    dt        3 03 Mar March   month String Format   0 d dd ddd dddd    dt        9 09 Sun Sunday  day String Format   0 h hh H HH        dt        4 04 16 16       hour 12 24 String Format   0 m mm             dt        5 05             minute String Format   0 s ss             dt        7 07             second String Format   0 f ff fff ffff    dt        1 12 123 1230    sec fraction String Format   0 F FF FFF FFFF    dt        1 12 123 123     without zeroes String Format   0 t tt             dt        P PM             A M  or P M  String Format   0 z zz zzz         dt        -6 -06 -06 00    time zone

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Try this    lt TextBlock Text   Binding PropertyPath  StringFormat d     gt    which is culture sensitive and requires  NET 3 5 SP1 or above   NOTE  This is case sensitive   d  is the short date format specifier while  D  is the long date format specifier   There s a full list of string format on the MSDN page on Standard Date and Time Format Strings and a fuller explanation of all the options on this MSDN blog post  However  there is one gotcha with this - it always outputs the date in US format unless you set the culture to the correct value yourself      If you do not set this property  the binding engine uses the Language property of the binding target object  In XAML this defaults to  en-US  or inherits the value from the root element  or any element  of the page  if one has been explicitly set    Source  One way to do this is in the code behind  assuming you ve set the culture of the thread to the correct value    this Language   XmlLanguage GetLanguage Thread CurrentThread CurrentCulture Name     The other way is to set the converter culture in the binding    lt TextBlock Text   Binding PropertyPath  StringFormat d  ConverterCulture en-GB     gt    Though this doesn t allow you to localise the output

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Use the StringFormat property  or ContentStringFormat on ContentControl and its derivatives  e g  Label     lt TextBlock Text   Binding Date  StringFormat    0 d      gt    Note the    prior to the standard String Format positional argument notation allows the braces to be escaped in the markup extension language

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If you want add a string with the value use this    lt TextBlock Text   Binding Date  StringFormat   Date    0 d       gt

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Or use this for an English  or mix it up for custom  format   StringFormat     0 dd MM yyyy

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Just use    lt TextBlock Text   Binding Date  StringFormat   0 d       gt

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Be aware of the single quotes for the string format  This doesn t work       Content   Binding PlannedDateTime  StringFormat    0 yy MM dd HH mm      while this does       Content   Binding PlannedDateTime  StringFormat     0 yy MM dd HH mm

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