Working with dateConversion

Question

I'm working on creating my own datetimepicker. I want to show the date as by the dateformat. The dateformat includes "MM-dd-yyyy" and other formats.

I wrote the code as below:

public DateTime getCurrentDate(string dateFormat)
{            
     curDate = DateTime.Now;            
     IFormatProvider theCultureInfo = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-us", true);
     return DateTime.ParseExact(curDate.ToShortDateString(), dateformat, theCultureInfo); 
}

When I execute the program it shows: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

Provide me some solution to handle with error.

There is a lot of missing data, but this might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2356601/custom-datetime-model-binder-in-asp-net-mvc/8035636#8035636 — gdoron is supporting Monica, Nov 07 '12 at 08:27
i only want to know about: String not recognized as a valid DateTime. how this error occured? — Suraj Shrestha, Nov 07 '12 at 08:39

Kaf · Answer 1 · 2012-11-07T09:44:47.787

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DateTime.ParseExact Method requires the format of the string representation matching the specified format exactly. So DateTime.ParseExact(s,format,provider) expects both s (specified by provider) and format having same format otherwise it throws String not recognized as a valid DateTime

In your case dateFormat has to be

DateTime y = getCurrentDate("dd/MM/yyyy"); //or
DateTime x = getCurrentDate("MM/dd/yyyy");

edited Nov 07 '12 at 09:44

answered Nov 07 '12 at 09:16

Kaf

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in my case dateFormat provides the string dd/MM/yyyy or MM/dd/yyyy – Suraj Shrestha Nov 07 '12 at 10:55

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '12 at 05:13

Finally, I got it.. I solve the problem like this..

 public string getCurrentDate(string dateFormat)
 {
     curDate = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
     curDate = String.Format("{0:" + dateFormat + "}", Convert.ToDateTime(curDate));
     return curDate;
 }

Working with dateConversion

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