String was not recognized as a valid DateTime error on IIS

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Greeting people...i develop a web..everything working fine till deployment...my question is..why is it this error appear? because if i run the web on Visual Studio Server everything fine...but when i deploy and run it on IIS server suddenly this error appear...why is people?? really need some help here..the stack trace point at this line...

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Line 111: string date = Convert.ToDateTime(txtdate.Text).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Posted 22-Apr-12 8:09am

beh7606

Updated 22-Apr-12 8:11am

Lakamraju Raghuram

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hitech_s 23-Apr-12 0:31am

can u please check once whether txtdate.Text contains data or not ?

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Vivek Krishnamurthy · Answer 1 · 2012-04-22T08:23:00

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Better way to do it is to use DateTime.TryParse. Refer to the following link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.tryparse.aspx[^]

Alternatively, you can use DateTime.TryParseExact :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms131044.aspx[^].

Posted 22-Apr-12 8:23am

Vivek Krishnamurthy

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beh7606 22-Apr-12 14:32pm

if my conversion fail, then why is it running succesfully on Visual Studio Server..? the issue here is, why not on IIS? is it something to do with my code?