convert string 5/15/2008 to date time 15/5/2008 in c#

[spellstone]

hello all aim a newbie in c# please tell me

how shall i convert string 5/15/2008 to date time 15/5/2008 in c#
and copmare the same with 14/5/2008

[Frinavale]

hello all aim a newbie in c# please tell me

how shall i convert string 5/15/2008 to date time 15/5/2008 in c#
and copmare the same with 14/5/2008

Usually dates are changed around based on the user's Culture.

If your culture is set to en-US then your dates will be displayed:
"mm/dd/yyyy"

Whereas if your culture is set to fr-FR or es-ES then your dates will be displayed:
"dd/mm/yyyy"

By setting your user's culture you can format the way things are displayed...

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo("en-US")
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")

Please note that the above code will not only display your dates in the format for en-US, it will also attempt to look for any resources indicated for en-US.

If you want to force your date to always be in one format, despite the user's culture settings, use the DateTimeFormatInfo object...

You should also look into Globalization.


-Frinny

[blackjack2150]

You can also do it by hand and avoid any possible Format mismatches:

Use the string Split() method to get the 3 components and then create a new DateTime object using the constructor that asks for 3 integers (date, month, year).

To convert a string to int use Convert.ToInt32() method.

GL.