string to DateTime conversion in C#

Question

Stupid questions but cant get my head around it... I have a string in this format 20081119

And I have a C# method that converts the string to a DateTime to be entere

Answer 1

I'm thinking it's due to the culture set in CurrentCulture, without knowing what that is, I can't be certain, but specifying en-US works on my end. Here is the code I have:

var dateString = "20081119";
var enUS = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US");
var resultingDate = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString,"yyyyMMdd",enUS);
Console.WriteLine(resultingDate.ToString());

Give it a try and see if it works for you.