Question

I have this code:

Dim birthdaystring As String = MonthBirth.SelectedValue.ToString & "/" & DayBirth.SelectedValue.ToString & "/" & YearBirth.SelectedValue.ToString
Dim birthday As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(birthdaystring)

Which produces errors (String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.)

The string was “01/31/1963”.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The problem is probably that the culture used for parsing the date expects a MM/dd/yyyy format rather than dd/MM/yyyy format.

Instead of creating a string and parsing it, create the DateTime value directly:

Dim birthday As New DateTime(YearBirth.SelectedValue, MonthBirth.SelectedValue, DayBirth.SelectedValue)