String Format Date - C# or VB.NET

Question

Date coming out of a database, need to format as "mm/dd/yy"

For Each dr as DataRow in ds.Tables(0).Rows

Response.Write(dr("CreateDate"))

Next

Answer 1

string.Format( "{0:MM/dd/yy}", dr("CreateDate") )

Edit: If dr("CreateDate") is DBNull, this returns "".

Answer 2

Convert.ToDateTime(dr("CreateDate")).ToShortDate()

See the MSDN docs for other functions available from the DateTime datatype, including custom formats available through the 'ToString' function.