How to set the Name of the DateTimePicker in C#? Last Updated : 02 Aug, 2019 Comments Improve Suggest changes Like Article Like Report In Windows Forms, the DateTimePicker control is used to select and display date/time with a specific format in your form. In DateTimePicker control, you can set the name of the DateTimePicker on the form using the Name Property. You can set this property in two different ways: 1. Design-Time: It is the easiest way to set the name of the DateTimePicker as shown in the following steps: Step 1: Create a windows form as shown in the below image: Visual Studio -> File -> New -> Project -> WindowsFormApp Step 2: Next, drag and drop the DateTimePicker control from the toolbox to the form as shown in the below image: Step 3: After drag and drop you will go to the properties of the DateTimePicker and set the name of the DateTimePicker as shown in the below image: Output: 2. Run-Time: It is a little bit trickier than the above method. In this method, you can set the name of the DateTimePicker control programmatically with the help of given syntax: public string Name { get; set; } The following steps show how to set the name of the DateTimePicker dynamically: Step 1: Create a DateTimePicker using the DateTimePicker() constructor is provided by the DateTimePicker class. // Creating a DateTimePicker DateTimePicker dt = new DateTimePicker(); Step 2: After creating DateTimePicker, set the Name property of the DateTimePicker provided by the DateTimePicker class. // Setting the name dt.Name = "MyPicker"; Step 3: And last add this DateTimePicker control to the form using the following statement: // Adding this control to the form this.Controls.Add(dt); Example: CSharp using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace WindowsFormsApp48 { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Creating and setting the // properties of the Label Label lab = new Label(); lab.Location = new Point(183, 162); lab.Size = new Size(172, 20); lab.Text = "Select Date and Time"; lab.Font = new Font("Comic Sans MS", 12); // Adding this control // to the form this.Controls.Add(lab); // Creating and setting the // properties of the DateTimePicker DateTimePicker dt = new DateTimePicker(); dt.Location = new Point(360, 162); dt.Size = new Size(292, 26); dt.MaxDate = new DateTime(2500, 12, 20); dt.MinDate = new DateTime(1753, 1, 1); dt.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Long; dt.Name = "MyPicker"; dt.Font = new Font("Comic Sans MS", 12); dt.Visible = true; dt.Value = DateTime.Today; // Adding this control // to the form this.Controls.Add(dt); } } } Output: Create Quiz Comment A ankita_saini Follow 0 Improve A ankita_saini Follow 0 Improve Article Tags : C# CSharp-Windows-Forms-Namespace Explore IntroductionC# Tutorial 2 min read Introduction to .NET Framework 6 min read C# .NET Framework (Basic Architecture and Component Stack) 6 min read C# Hello World 2 min read Common Language Runtime (CLR) in C# 4 min read FundamentalsC# Identifiers 2 min read Data Types in C# 6 min read C# Variables 4 min read C# Literals 5 min read Operators in C# 7 min read C# Keywords 5 min read Control StatementsC# Decision Making (if, if-else, if-else-if ladder, nested if, switch, nested switch) 5 min read C# Switch Statement 4 min read Loops in C# 4 min read C# Jump Statements (Break, Continue, Goto, Return and Throw) 4 min read OOP ConceptsClass and Objects in C# 4 min read Constructors in C# 5 min read C# Inheritance 3 min read Encapsulation in C# 2 min read C# Abstraction 4 min read MethodsMethods in C# 4 min read Method Overloading in C# 4 min read Method Parameters in C# 4 min read Method Overriding in C# 7 min read Anonymous Method in C# 2 min read ArraysArrays in C# 6 min read Jagged Arrays in C# 4 min read Array Class in C# 5 min read How to Sort an Array in C# | Array.Sort() Method Set - 1 8 min read How to find the rank of an array in C# 2 min read ArrayListArrayList in C# 6 min read ArrayList Class in C# 4 min read C# | Array vs ArrayList 2 min read StringStrings in C# 6 min read C# Verbatim String Literal - @ 5 min read C# String Class 9 min read C# StringBuilder 2 min read C# String vs StringBuilder 3 min read TupleC# Tuple 7 min read C# Tuple Class 3 min read C# ValueTuple 7 min read C# ValueTuple Struct 4 min read IndexersC# Indexers 5 min read C# Multidimensional Indexers 5 min read C# - Overloading of Indexers 3 min read Like