Question

I have a string that holds a value in the format of ddMMyyhhmmss.

Example 240512024707

I need to be able to convert this date to a real .NET Date object.

I am currently using CDate but it seems CDate does not recognize the format, is there any way of specifying the string format to CDate ???

row.Item("NoteDate") = CDate(n.noteText.Substring(0, 12).ToString).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss")

Answer 1

You have the string with the date, you know the exact format string – use DateTime.ParseExact (or DateTime.TryParseExact if you wish to avoid the potential exception being thrown):

DateTime.ParseExact("240512024707", "ddMMyyhhmmss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)