Trying to fill textbox value with today's date only on visual basics?

Question

I am trying to fill a textbox value with the current date and I do not want the user to be able to change the date. I want to use a textbox and not a datepicker. I would like the form to load with today's date already loaded in the textbox, which I will then use in my insert query. I want the date format of yyyy-MM-dd to be in the textbox memberregisterationdate.text. I am not sure where on my form I should put the code either.

Answer 1

Do not use a text box for this, as it is confusing to the user and bad UI design practice.

.Use a LABEL instead.. Always use LABELS instead of disabled text boxes

Change the NAME property to LabelRegistrationDate

You can set the BorderStyle property to FixedSingle or Fixed3D

If you have VB.net, the statement you need is:

LabelRegistrationDate.Text = Format(Now, "yyyy-MM-dd")

For vb 6, the statement is

LabelRegistrationDate.Caption = Format(Now, "yyyy-MM-dd")