String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

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Hey,
I got this error on running my project "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime." In my project I have passed a parameter string AddedDate and it is stored as:
objmyprojBO.AddedDate = Convert.ToDateTime(AddedDate);
and found the above error.
Please help me.

[Edit - CHill60 - OP comment from "solution"]
The problem is the format of date. I have used a date picker function to get calender in text box, by default the date format is MM/dd/yyyy. But ASP code uses dd/MM/yyyy format. So there is an error above occured. So I need to specify the correct format of date as shown below.
$("#txtAddedDate").datepicker({dateformat : "dd/mm/yyyy"});.

Posted 13-May-14 1:24am

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Updated 14-May-14 2:34am

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[no name] 13-May-14 7:30am

Make sure that "AddedDate" is a valid date time.

My Doubt 13-May-14 7:58am

Yea its valid date time. Its my jquery :
var AddedDate = $('#txtAddedDate').val();
but in here and the date format will be : MM/dd/yyyy, but here:
objmyprojBO.AddedDate = Convert.ToDateTime(AddedDate);
dete format is: dd/MM/yyyy

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2014-05-13T01:38:00

1. First, check that the date string is a valid one using tryparse;
2. Specify the desired date format;
3. then can do the conversion.

using System;
 
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
          // change 2/22/2014 5:08:46 PM to 2014-02-22.
          string dateString = "2/22/2014 5:08:46 PM";
 
          Console.WriteLine("The original string is {0}", dateString);
 
          DateTime dt;
 
          if (DateTime.TryParse(dateString, out dt))
          {
               string format = "yyyy-MM-dd";
               Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString(format));
          }
          else
          {
              Console.WriteLine("Not a valid datetime");
          }
    }
}

balajidileepkumar · Answer 2 · 2014-05-13T01:34:00

Solution 1

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo( cultureName );
Convert.ToDateTime(AddedDate,culture);
check the Iformat of the passing string parameter,

Posted 13-May-14 1:34am

balajidileepkumar

My Doubt · Answer 3 · 2014-05-14T02:27:00

Solution 4

The problem is the format of date. I have used a date picker function to get calender in text box, by default the date format is MM/dd/yyyy. But ASP code uses dd/MM/yyyy format. So there is an error above occured. So I need to specify the correct format of date as shown below.
$("#txtAddedDate").datepicker({dateformat : "dd/mm/yyyy"});.

Posted 14-May-14 2:27am

My Doubt

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CHill60 14-May-14 8:33am

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Member 10613818 · Answer 4 · 2014-05-13T01:42:00

Solution 3

Make sure entered string is in proper format . Then do the following steps .

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo(cultureName);
Convert.ToDateTime(AddedDate,culture);

Posted 13-May-14 1:42am

Member 10613818

Updated 13-May-14 1:43am

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