string into DateTime?

[Yin99]

I have the string "8/2/2007 12:00:00 AM"

I'd like to get this in DateTime variable so I can manipulate (e.g.
use TimeSpan to find difference). However, when I look at the
DateTime constructors, everything seems to be int, long, etc.

So my question is, what would be the easiest way to get this into
DateTime? Seems like a long way would be to split at the "/", parse
out, use int.Parse, etc (brute force). But I was wondering if there
was a quick and cleaver way to do this in minimal lines of code?

Thanks- Yin

background info: i'm using DateTimePicker control and reading the
value which returns a string in format above. I have two
DateTimePickers and need to know the number of months between the
value in the first DateTimePicker and the second DateTimePicker.

[RB]

Yin99 wrote:

I have the string "8/2/2007 12:00:00 AM"

I'd like to get this in DateTime variable so I can manipulate (e.g.
use TimeSpan to find difference). However, when I look at the
DateTime constructors, everything seems to be int, long, etc.

So my question is, what would be the easiest way to get this into
DateTime? Seems like a long way would be to split at the "/", parse
out, use int.Parse, etc (brute force). But I was wondering if there
was a quick and cleaver way to do this in minimal lines of code?

Thanks- Yin

background info: i'm using DateTimePicker control and reading the
value which returns a string in format above. I have two
DateTimePickers and need to know the number of months between the
value in the first DateTimePicker and the second DateTimePicker.

I think the following code will work:

Dim d As DateTime
d = Date.Parse("8/2/2007 12:00:00 AM")

Cheers,

RB.

[David Wier]

if it's truely a DateTime variable, all DateTime members should be available
to you.
could you show us your code?

David Wier
http://aspnet101.com
http://iWritePro.com
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>I have the string "8/2/2007 12:00:00 AM"

I'd like to get this in DateTime variable so I can manipulate (e.g.
use TimeSpan to find difference). However, when I look at the
DateTime constructors, everything seems to be int, long, etc.

So my question is, what would be the easiest way to get this into
DateTime? Seems like a long way would be to split at the "/", parse
out, use int.Parse, etc (brute force). But I was wondering if there
was a quick and cleaver way to do this in minimal lines of code?

Thanks- Yin

background info: i'm using DateTimePicker control and reading the
value which returns a string in format above. I have two
DateTimePickers and need to know the number of months between the
value in the first DateTimePicker and the second DateTimePicker.

[Petar Atanasov]

Yin99 wrote:

I have the string "8/2/2007 12:00:00 AM"

I'd like to get this in DateTime variable so I can manipulate (e.g.
use TimeSpan to find difference). However, when I look at the
DateTime constructors, everything seems to be int, long, etc.

So my question is, what would be the easiest way to get this into
DateTime? Seems like a long way would be to split at the "/", parse
out, use int.Parse, etc (brute force). But I was wondering if there
was a quick and cleaver way to do this in minimal lines of code?

Thanks- Yin

background info: i'm using DateTimePicker control and reading the
value which returns a string in format above. I have two
DateTimePickers and need to know the number of months between the
value in the first DateTimePicker and the second DateTimePicker.

Try out DateTime.ParseExact(...)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w2sa9yss.aspx

HTH,
Petar Atanasov
http://a-wake.net