Date formatting in WPF datagrid

If your bound property is DateTime, then all you need is

Binding={Property, StringFormat=d}

Don`t forget to use DataGrid.Columns, all columns must be inside that collection. In my project I format date a little bit differently:

<tk:DataGrid>
    <tk:DataGrid.Columns>
        <tk:DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding StartDate, StringFormat=\{0:dd.MM.yy HH:mm:ss\}}" />
    </tk:DataGrid.Columns>
</tk:DataGrid>

With AutoGenerateColumns you won`t be able to contol formatting as DataGird will add its own columns.

Very late to the party here but in case anyone else stumbles across this page...

You can do it by setting the AutoGeneratingColumn handler in XAML:

<DataGrid AutoGeneratingColumn="OnAutoGeneratingColumn"  ..etc.. />

And then in code behind do something like this:

private void OnAutoGeneratingColumn(object sender, DataGridAutoGeneratingColumnEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.PropertyType == typeof(System.DateTime))
        (e.Column as DataGridTextColumn).Binding.StringFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy";
}