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

This is what will give exact result you are looking for:

convert( varchar(10), getdate(), 112 ) : datetime to string (YYYYMMDD format)

convert( datetime, '20081203', 112 ) : string to datetime (YYYYMMDD format)

Code side:

DateTimeFormatInfo fmt = (new CultureInfo("hr-HR")).DateTimeFormat; Console.WriteLine(thisDate.ToString("d", fmt)); // Displays 15.3.2008 (use similar formats acc to your requirements)

or

date1.ToString("YYYYMMDD",CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US")) date1.ToString("YYYYMMDD");

Details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az4se3k1.aspx