formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable date.
How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.tostring("date format string") but
the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

"Andy B" wrote in message
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>I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable
>date. How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.tostring("date format
>string") but the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?

A bit dirty, but you could cast it to a date and then format it, e.g.

VB:
CDate(TextBox1.Text).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")

C#:
((DateTime)(TextBox1.Text)).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

"Leon Mayne" wrote in message
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> C#:
> ((DateTime)(TextBox1.Text)).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

The above format will result in an ambiguous date, e.g. 03/02/2008

Use "dd MMM yyyy" for guaranteed clarity...


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Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up with
this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string' to
'System.DateTime'
My line of code was:
ConfirmStartTimeLabel.Text=((DateTime)(StartTimeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dddd,
MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");



All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00 PM
and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format strings I
want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string that way
since it isn't actually a date.






"Leon Mayne" wrote in message
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> "Andy B" wrote in message
> news:uVjioMRXIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I need to take the value of a textbox and format it in a more readable
>>date. How do you do this? I tried textbox.text.tostring("date format
>>string") but the compiler doesnt like that idea... any ideas?
>
> A bit dirty, but you could cast it to a date and then format it, e.g.
>
> VB:
> CDate(TextBox1.Text).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")
>
> C#:
> ((DateTime)(TextBox1.Text)).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

"Andy B" wrote in message
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> Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up
> with this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string' to
> 'System.DateTime'
> My line of code was:
> ConfirmStartTimeLabel.Text=((DateTime)(StartTimeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dddd,
> MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");
>
>
>
> All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00
> PM and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format
> strings I want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string
> that way since it isn't actually a date.

So convert it to a date then format the date to a string. That's what Leon
was getting at, but you can't just cast a string to a DateTime, you have to
convert it:

Convert.ToDateTime(TextBox1.Text).ToString("date format");

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

> The above format will result in an ambiguous date, e.g. 03/02/2008

What is ambiguous about March 2nd, 2008? ;-)

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

When I tried this idea, it worked until i applied date formatting. the
string 03/12/2008 3:30PM actually turned out as January 01 00000000
12000AM... any ideas?

"Scott Roberts" wrote in
message news:%233nDByRXIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
> "Andy B" wrote in message
> news:eOlXkqRXIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up
>> with this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string'
>> to 'System.DateTime'
>> My line of code was:
>> ConfirmStartTimeLabel.Text=((DateTime)(StartTimeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dddd,
>> MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");
>>
>>
>>
>> All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00
>> PM and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format
>> strings I want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string
>> that way since it isn't actually a date.
>
> So convert it to a date then format the date to a string. That's what Leon
> was getting at, but you can't just cast a string to a DateTime, you have
> to convert it:
>
> Convert.ToDateTime(TextBox1.Text).ToString("date format");

Re: formatting TextBox.Text with ToString(IFormatProvider)

Works for me.

using System;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string s = "03/12/2008 3:30PM";
Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToDateTime(s).ToString("dddd, MMMM d yyyy
h:mmtt"));
}
}
}

If you're still having problems, it's probably related to parsing the string
to a DateTime using whatever your current culture happens to be.


"Andy B" wrote in message
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> When I tried this idea, it worked until i applied date formatting. the
> string 03/12/2008 3:30PM actually turned out as January 01 00000000
> 12000AM... any ideas?
>
> "Scott Roberts" wrote in
> message news:%233nDByRXIHA.4684@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "Andy B" wrote in message
>> news:eOlXkqRXIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi... Good idea but when I tried the following line of code I ended up
>>> with this: Compiler Error Message: CS0030: Cannot convert type 'string'
>>> to 'System.DateTime'
>>> My line of code was:
>>> ConfirmStartTimeLabel.Text=((DateTime)(StartTimeTextBox.Text )).ToString("dddd,
>>> MMMM d yyyy h:mmtt");
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> All i need to do is take a string that looks like this: 01/01/2008 12:00
>>> PM and format it to look like a better date. I have the date format
>>> strings I want already...it's just figuring out how to format the string
>>> that way since it isn't actually a date.
>>
>> So convert it to a date then format the date to a string. That's what
>> Leon was getting at, but you can't just cast a string to a DateTime, you
>> have to convert it:
>>
>> Convert.ToDateTime(TextBox1.Text).ToString("date format");
>
>