In this blog, we are going to parse the string to specific Date Time data Type.

Usage:

 DateTime a3 = TryParseDateTime("31/5/2012", DateTime.MinValue);//TRUE
DateTime b3 = TryParseDateTime("05/32/2012", DateTime.MinValue);//FALSE

Response.Write(string.Format("A:{0},B:{1}", a3.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy"),

b3.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")) + "<br/>");


Output:

A:31/05/2012,B:01/01/0001


Method1: DateTime.TryParse

Best to use if there is uncertain about the input string.

/// <summary>
 /// Note it takes your System dateTime format like d/M/yyyy etc.
 /// It wont throw error. Instead it gives the ifFail value if error occurs
 /// </summary>
 public DateTime TryParseDateTime(string input, DateTime ifFail)

{
DateTime output;

if (DateTime.TryParse(input, out output))
{
output = output;
}
else
 {
output = ifFail;
}

return output;
 }

Method 2: DateTime.Parse

If you sure about the input string going to be valid, then go for this method.

/// <summary>
 /// Parses the string as DateTime. But if datetime string is invalid, then it throws error
 /// </summary>
 public DateTime ParseDateTime(string input)
{
return DateTime.Parse(input);
 }

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