Converting a string to DateTime

[YvonneTsang]

Is there an easy way to convert a string to the DateTime type? I am retrieving the value from an SQL Database and I want to store it in a DateTime object. What is the easiest way to do this? Thanks in advance.

 

[chiph]

There's two ways:

You can call the Parse method on the DateTime structure, or you can use the Convert class, which has a static method called "ToDateTime" that has many overloads, one of which takes a string. ToDateTime() ends up calling the DateTime.Parse method internally, so use whichever is most convenient for you.

Chip H.

 

[chiph]

Forgot: reference is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...f/html/frlrfsystemdatetimeclassparsetopic.asp

Chip H.