Date conversion

[KK]

Hi,

How can we convert string to date in VB.NET?

I will get date in a string "5/24/2005"
By using date operations I want to convert this date into another
string "24-May-2005". Not by using arrays.

Pls help.

Regards.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How can we convert string to date in VB.NET?

I will get date in a string "5/24/2005"
By using date operations I want to convert this date into another
string "24-May-2005". Not by using arrays.

Take a look at 'Date.Parse', 'Date.ParseExact' and 'Date.ToString'.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

KK,

In addition to Herfried, the Microsoft VisualBasic namespace has very strong
convert methods, those do not need you to use some of the very basic .Net
functions. This is especially for dates, where for the conversion is CDate.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vblr7/html/vagrptypeconversion.asp

(When you have to do something with dates don't forget to look at the date
functions from VBNet, the are extremly handy)

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert]

KK,

I forgot this to write, date conversions are very depending on cultures.

By instance has the United States a very local datetime format not used at
much places outside the USA and English speaking Candada, except in a Coca
Cola culture way.

Therefore is the use of any datetime string in Net, which uses in my opinion
extremely well the culture/language settings of the computer, something
that you would have to avoid as much as possible.

Just my thought,

Cor