Remove hours:seconds:milliseconds in DateTime object

Question

I\'m trying to create a string from the DateTime object which yields the format mm:dd:yyyy.

Conventionally the DateTime object comes as

Answer 1

Easy way, probably not the best but

DateTime dt = new DateTime();
dt = DateTime.Now;
string sdate = dt.ToShortDateString();
dt = DateTime.Parse(sdate);

Or for short

var dt = DateTime.Parse(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());