The DateEdit control supports a number of date formats classified as follows:

• Predefined formats: DateEdit supports short date, long date, general date, short time, long time, scientific, percent, and several other predefined formats. You can display date and time in any of these formats by setting the FormatType property from FormatTypeEnum.
• Custom formats: DateEdit allows custom formatting of dates. You can specify custom formats and display dates in those formats. To enable custom formatting, set the FormatType property to CustomFormat from FormatTypeEnum. Further, to display dates in custom formats, set custom format specifiers in the CustomFormat property.

For information on custom format specifiers, see Custom Date and Time Format Strings. The DateEdit control supports majority of these format strings.

The following image shows the DateEdit control displaying date in a custom format.

The following code snippet shows how to display a date in a custom format in DateEdit.

' specify the format type as custom format
C1DateEdit1.FormatType = C1.Win.C1Input.FormatTypeEnum.CustomFormat

' set the custom format specifier
C1DateEdit1.CustomFormat = "MMM-dd-yyyy"

// specify the format type as custom format
c1DateEdit1.FormatType = C1.Win.C1Input.FormatTypeEnum.CustomFormat;

// set the custom format specifier
c1DateEdit1.CustomFormat = "MMM-dd-yyyy";