C#

DateTime mydatetime = DateTime.Parse("11/03/2005");

string theDate = "11/03/2005";<br />
DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(theDate, new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"));<br />
MessageBox.Show(dt.ToLongDateString());

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

but that didn't work

J4amieC wrote:

It appears to work perfectly!

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OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
DialogResult dialogResult = openFileDialog.ShowDialog();
if(dialogResult == DialogResult.OK && openFileDialog.FileName != "")
{
    // use something with this filename (openFileDialog.FileName)
    // For example :
    // FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(openFileDialog.FileName, FileMode.Open);
    // ...
    // fileStream.Close();
}

OpenFileDialog openFileDialog = new OpenFileDialog();
if(openFileDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
	System.IO.FileStream filestream = openFileDialog.OpenFile();
	// ... use something with filestream
	filestream.Close();
}