DateTimePicker - How to assign current date?

Go to properties of datetimePicker and set format to short,It will give you
Current date. To do it you dont require any coding.

When the user clicks on the Down arrow, a DropDown event fires just before the drop-down calendar actually appears—that is, if the UpDown property is False (the default value). When the user selects a date in the drop-down calendar, a CloseUp event fires. These events aren't particularly useful, however, because you don't have much control over the calendar itself, apart from the colors it uses. When the user selects a date in the drop-down calendar, the Change event fires before the CloseUp event.