Question

Higuys,

I have a Textbox where user choose a date (MM/dd/yyyy) and another TextBox where choose inserts time (hh:mm).

<tr>
            <td>
                <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" CssClass="cp_title">Event Date:</asp:Label>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" CssClass="cp_title">Event Time(hh:mm):</asp:Label>
            </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>
                <asp:TextBox ID="txtEventDate" runat="server">
                </asp:TextBox>
                <cc1:CalendarExtender ID="cldEventDate" runat="server" TargetControlID="txtEventDate"
                    PopupPosition="BottomLeft" Format="MM/dd/yyyy">
                </cc1:CalendarExtender>
            </td>
            <td>
                <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtEventTime"></asp:TextBox>
            </td>
        </tr>

In the database I have a single column for DateTime so I have to “concatenate” the user input into a real datetime format…

I see a constructor for DateTime which takes as args: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, but this requires me to parse user input and split in these periods….

Do you know an easier solution?

Answer 1

You can use DateTime.ParseExact():

DateTime.ParseExact(txtEventDate.Text + " " + txtEventTime.Text,
                    "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)