convert string to date

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Hi All,

I am having an issue converting a string(textbox1.text)to date/time short string.

VB

'Dim today As System.DateTime
Dim future As System.DateTime
' String to DateTime
Dim MyString As [String]
MyString = txtdate.Text
'MyString = "02/02/2011";  
Dim MyDateTime As DateTime
MyDateTime = New DateTime()
MyDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(MyString, "dd/mm/yyyy", Nothing)
future = MyDateTime.AddDays(txtnos.Text)
txtenddate.Text = future

Im not to sure what is wrong with the above code, it works fine but does not return the correct string value. instead of adding the number of days to the Mystring, it is starting from the start of the year and then counting the number of days....i believe it is something to do with the datetime.parseextract formatting.

Any help would be great.

Posted 23-May-11 18:09pm

SIFNOk

Updated 23-May-11 18:20pm

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Prerak Patel · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23T18:18:00

Solution 1

Use the following

VB

MyDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(MyString, "dd/MM/yyyy", Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Posted 23-May-11 18:18pm

Prerak Patel

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SIFNOk 24-May-11 0:21am

PRERAK YOU ARE GOD! :D
thank you very very very much, this has been troubling me for dayss!!!
Your the best!

Prerak Patel 24-May-11 0:22am

You are welcome.

Jagz W · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23T18:29:00

Solution 2

I have same problem but i solved by using IFormatProvider

Dim provider as IFormatProvider
provider = new system.globalization.cultureinfo("en-GB",true)
dim future as system.datetime
dim Mystring as string
mystring=txtdate.text
dim mydatetime as datetime
mydatetime = new datetime()
mydatetime=date.parse(mystring,provider,system.globalization.datetimestyles.nocurrentdatedefault)

Posted 23-May-11 18:29pm

Jagz W

Updated 23-May-11 18:34pm

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SIFNOk 24-May-11 0:55am

Thanks Jwalia For your response.
This retrieved the same result as the below solution! but i thank you, as this will show me alternative methods and also how its strutured. :)