How to convert DateTime Column to String during Runtime in DataTable

Question

Could you please suggest how to convert Date Column to ShortDateString During Runtime in this below DataTable

    /// <summary>
    /// This example method generates a DataTable.
    /// </summary>
    static DataTable GetTable1()
    {
        //
        // Here we create a DataTable with four columns.
        //
        DataTable table = new DataTable();
        table.Columns.Add("Dosage", typeof(int));
        table.Columns.Add("Drug", typeof(string));
        table.Columns.Add("Patient", typeof(string));
        table.Columns.Add("Date", typeof(DateTime));

    }

Answer 1

Simply change the Date column to

  table.Columns.Add("Date", typeof(string));

and in the Add call change the DateTime.Now to

  table.Rows.Add(22, "Indocin", "David", DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());

But this seems to be logically incorrect. Why do you want to have a date representend internally as a string. Leave it as a Date and, when you need to display it apply the formatting rules provided by the user interface object that you want to use to display your datatable