Datetime and day of week

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Write a program, which prints, on the console which day of the week is today 1. //DayOfWeek now = DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek; //Console.WriteLine(now); 2. DateTime today = DateTime.Today; string date=today.DayOfWeek; Console.WriteLine(today); Questions are : A) With the first code i am getting the value....but with the second i am not getting. I want to know how we can do from 2nd one... B) Also we have DATETIME and DAYOFWEEK. which one should we use while using IDE? C) Also i get confused should we use brackets at the end or not ? in what cases should we use brackets . For example if i give DayOfWeek now = DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek(); it gives me error. But if i give DayOfWeek now = DateTime.Today.DayOfWeek; it works. What is the concept here? Pls suggest

Hiten Pandya · Answer

Hi, The answer to your first question is there is an error of conversion in your second program line 2. You are trying to get the Day of week whose type is DateTime and you are placing it into string so you have to cast it to the string simply change the line to, string date = today.DayOfWeek.ToString(); Answer for the second is it's totaly depend on your requirement. Answer for the third one is you can not use brackets because DayOfWeek is a property not a method and you can see it in your IDE you will get intellisense where for method there is a sign of 3D cubic and for property there is a sign of wrench (if i am not wrong). Hope it helps you. Thanks.

Debasis Saha · Answer

Find the belows exaplanations - a) For getting the value u need to print date variable in console since ur storing daye of week value within the date variable not in today varaible. DateTime today = DateTime.Today; string date=today.DayOfWeek; Console.WriteLine(date); B) You need to use DAYOFWEEK for getting the weekday C) Actually bracket need to use for method. For properties, bracket does not need to use. DAYOFWEEK or TODAY is the properties of the DATETIME Class in C#. But AddDay() is the method of class. For details reference please check the below links - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime(v=vs.110).aspx

Datetime and day of week

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