String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

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When i Try to convert string to datetime, it thrown an error & it says that "

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String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

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My code is give below

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string dateString = "16.10.2014";
DateTime formattedDate = DateTime.Parse(dateString);

Please have look into this code & give me the best way to solve it

Posted 1-Feb-16 20:13pm

Sobin Sebastian

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Use DateTime.ParseExact.

this.Text="16/10/2014";

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact(this.Text, "dd/MM/yyyy", null);

Posted 1-Feb-16 20:35pm

Gokulprasad05

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BillWoodruff · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-01T22:22:00

You need to use existing CultureInfo, DateTimeFormat, settings here, or create custom ones: in this case you can use the "de-DE," "German" settings:

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using System.Globalization;

namespace YourNameSpace
{
    private static CultureInfo deCulInfo = new CultureInfo("de-DE"); 
    private static DateTimeFormatInfo deForInfo = deCulInfo.DateTimeFormat;
    private static DateTimeStyles dtStyle = DateTimeStyles.None;
    
        public string DateToDeString(DateTime dt)
        {
            return dt.ToString("dd'.'MM'.'yyyy", deCulInfo);
        }

        public DateTime DeStringToDate(string dts)
        {
           DateTime dt;

           if(DateTime.TryParse(dts, deForInfo, dtStyle, out dt)) return dt;

           return DateTime.MinValue;
        }
}

// test in some Method or EventHandler
// DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(2014,10,16);

// string txt = DateToDeString(dt1);

// DateTime dt2 = DeStringToDate(txt);

// set a break-point here and inspect values