C# : Parsing dates

 

Dates are a PIA – no matter what language.

Found a neat way to do the validation e.g. the d/m/yyyy vs. d/mm/yyyy vs. dd/mm/yyyy etc.

bool validDate = DateTime.TryParseExact(txtDate.Text, 
    new[] { "dd/MM/yyyy", "d/MM/yyyy"},  
    CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out d);  

 if (!validDate)  
 {
      Error stuff
 }
 else
      Valid stuff

So you just add the valid patterns to the array and away you go!

Enjoy!