Gets or sets a DateTime object to determine the start month of the year when DateGrouping is used.

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Property StartDateOfYear As Date

Visual Basic (Usage)	Copy Code
`Dim instance As DataEngine Dim value As Date instance.StartDateOfYear = value value = instance.StartDateOfYear`

C#
public DateTime StartDateOfYear {get; set;}

Example

This example change the year duration from Jan-Dec to Mar-Feb. Beside month, other values are ignored.

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`de.StartDateOfYear = new DateTime(2004,3,1);`

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`de.StartDateOfYear = New DateTime(2004, 3, 1)`

This property determine the start month of the year. The default is January.