How to Convert ISO 8601 Duration to TimeSpan in VB.Net?

Question

Is there a standard library method that converts a string that has duration in the standard ISO 8601 Duration (also used in XSD for its duration type) format in

Answer 1

This will convert from xs:duration to TimeSpan:

System.Xml.XmlConvert.ToTimeSpan("P0DT1H0M0S")

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlconvert.totimespan.aspx