help converting multiple time and date strings into one

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i need help converting 3 different date and time strings into one. See i load each item from a file into a datagridview so each line might have one of the following date and time formats

1.2011-10-20T20:49:59-0400
2.20:49 10/20/2011
3.June 15, 2009 8:45:30 PM

i wasn't the one in charge of maintaining these file and i wish i was but now i m in charge of creating a display that will uniform everything when users are looking through the datagrid view and see the time and date. I know how to convert one string but i need help coming up with a way that when its loading the information if its sees the date format then it knows to convert it to a specific format. I want the output to look like: 4/10/2008 6:30:00 AM, help would be great because i m lost.

Posted 24-May-12 14:07pm

Zachary.shupp

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Jim Jos 24-May-12 20:12pm

Have you used ValueConverters? I think that is the best thing to do here..

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Jim Jos · Answer 1 · 2012-05-24T14:17:00

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You could use either stringformat feauture of 3.5 or value converters

Please refer these links ..

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/59e769ba-f21d-43db-9097-02558452fb52 ^

http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/wpf-sample-series-formatting-data-binding-dates-and-numbers/

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wpf/thread/656ae800-1641-40a0-981a-2f1965952def[

Piping Value Converters in WPF

Posted 24-May-12 14:17pm

Jim Jos

Updated 24-May-12 14:22pm

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Zachary.shupp 24-May-12 21:03pm

i read through what you have posted and it all refreces wpf and this is a winforms application. if you think it will work with winforms could you provide an example

Jim Jos 25-May-12 0:50am

How are you loading into Datagirdview? Using Datasource property or loading one by one?

Zachary.shupp 25-May-12 9:19am

loading one by one. i tried using and if statement to change them but it didnt work.