How do I convert a datetime to a short date time in C#?

Question

I am new to MVVM and cannot determine how I convert datetime values to short date time so they display correctly in my datagrid.

Can anyone provide some sample code to convert datetime to short date time correctly?

there's millions of examples on the site. search before asking! — Rachel Gallen, May 23 '13 at 14:35
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5046429/wpf-binding-stringformat-short-date-string — cheedep, May 23 '13 at 14:35
Show some code of what you have tried. We don't have very much to go off of. — gunr2171, May 23 '13 at 14:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '13 at 14:36

Your ViewModel is not supposed to specify how it is being displayed in the view. So your ViewModel just has a property with the DateTime object.

The actual formatting is then specified in the view; with WPF you do that in the binding with the StringFormat parameter:

{Binding MyDate, StringFormat=d}

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