Herfried,
Wake up, Cor. We are talking about converting a date to a string only.
VB.NET's methods for doing that are not stronger than those provided by
the .NET Framework.
I wrote this expressely because you are writting this forever in this way
about other functions as Mid, Len, and whatever.
However when the "parse" comes than you have another opinion.
The CDate is not a *strong* command, however just like the ones you are
forever mentioning in other situations, (which I don't like because of the
First as indexer), do I find this one extremly handy. I have nothing to
remember beside four characters "CDate" and than it does everything
accoording the language/culture settings of a computer.
You write forever "why not use VB methods when there are VB methods". I
never understand why in this case a "system" method should be used as you
always tell.
Cor