Convert a two digit year to a four digit year

Question

This is a question of best practices. I have a utility that takes in a two digit year as a string and I need to convert it to a four digit year as a string. right now I do <

Answer 1

Try this simple code

//Invoke TextBoxDateFormat method with date as parameter.

Method

public void TextBoxDateFormat(string str1)

{

// Takes the current date format if MM/DD/YY or MM/DD/YYYY

DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(str1);

//Converts the requested date into MM/DD/YYYY and assign it to textbox field

TextBox = String.Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy}", dt.ToShortDateString());


//include your validation code if required

}