format date/time

[brews]

Trying to show date and time in a label where it will update constantly. The formats that I know are:

       me.Items("lblDate").Text = DateTime.Today ' day only

        ssMain.Items("lblDate").Text = DateTime.Now 'date,hh:mm:ss

Would like to have date,hh:mm. Thanks.

 

[TysonLPrice]

Debug.Print(Format(Now, "MM/dd/yyyy, HH:MM"))

 

[brews]

Thanks for the response. That does not work. This does:

        Dim time As DateTime = DateTime.Now
        Dim format As String = "g"
        me.Items("lblDate").Text = time.ToString(format)

This link explains:

http://www.dotnetperls.com/datetime-format-vbnet

 

[TysonLPrice]

What do you mean it doesn't work? It produces this:

12/27/2011, 10:12

That's what I thought you asked for.

 

[brews]

When it is placed into code the msg appears: 'Value of type Date cannot be converted to Integer.' And 'Too many arguments to Public ReadOnly Default Property Chars(index As Integer) as Char'.

That's what I mean. It does not work for me as is.