String was not recognized as a valid DateTime

Question

I am converting the uk date format string to US format to save this into database but it throw me error \"String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.\"

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Answer 1

You have specified the wrong format. It should be dd/MM/yyyy:

var dateString = "13/06/2011";
var aa = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);