formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IForma tProvider)

[Andy B]

I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable date.
How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.to string("date format string") but
the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?

[Leon Mayne]

"Andy B" <a_*****@sbcglo bal.netwrote in message
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>I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable
date. How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.to string("date format
string") but the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?

A bit dirty, but you could cast it to a date and then format it, e.g.

VB:
CDate(TextBox1. Text).ToString( "dd/MM/yyyy")

C#:
((DateTime)(Tex tBox1.Text)).To String("dd/MM/yyyy");

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

"Leon Mayne" <le**@rmvme.mvp s.orgwrote in message
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C#:
((DateTime)(Tex tBox1.Text)).To String("dd/MM/yyyy");

The above format will result in an ambiguous date, e.g. 03/02/2008

Use "dd MMM yyyy" for guaranteed clarity...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

[Andy B]

Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up with
this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string' to
'System.DateTim e'
My line of code was:
ConfirmStartTim eLabel.Text=((D ateTime)(StartT imeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dd dd,
MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");

All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00 PM
and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format strings I
want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string that way
since it isn't actually a date.


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"Andy B" <a_*****@sbcglo bal.netwrote in message
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>>I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable
date. How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.to string("date format
string") but the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?

A bit dirty, but you could cast it to a date and then format it, e.g.

VB:
CDate(TextBox1. Text).ToString( "dd/MM/yyyy")

C#:
((DateTime)(Tex tBox1.Text)).To String("dd/MM/yyyy");

[Scott Roberts]

"Andy B" <a_*****@sbcglo bal.netwrote in message
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Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up
with this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string' to
'System.DateTim e'
My line of code was:
ConfirmStartTim eLabel.Text=((D ateTime)(StartT imeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dd dd,
MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");

All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00
PM and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format
strings I want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string
that way since it isn't actually a date.

So convert it to a date then format the date to a string. That's what Leon
was getting at, but you can't just cast a string to a DateTime, you have to
convert it:

Convert.ToDateT ime(TextBox1.Te xt).ToString("d ate format");

[Scott Roberts]

The above format will result in an ambiguous date, e.g. 03/02/2008

What is ambiguous about March 2nd, 2008? ;-)

[Andy B]

When I tried this idea, it worked until i applied date formatting. the
string 03/12/2008 3:30PM actually turned out as January 01 00000000
12000AM... any ideas?

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"Andy B" <a_*****@sbcglo bal.netwrote in message
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>Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up
with this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string'
to 'System.DateTim e'
My line of code was:
ConfirmStartTi meLabel.Text=(( DateTime)(Start TimeTextBox.Tex t)).ToString("d ddd,
MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");

All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00
PM and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format
strings I want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string
that way since it isn't actually a date.

So convert it to a date then format the date to a string. That's what Leon
was getting at, but you can't just cast a string to a DateTime, you have
to convert it:

Convert.ToDateT ime(TextBox1.Te xt).ToString("d ate format");