Question

I wrote this code in vb:

expireDate = (DateTime.Parse(decal.DecalExpireDate).ToShortDateString).ToString

Now I’m trying to write the same code in c#, this is what I came up with:

expireDate = decal.DecalExpireDate.ToString();
expireDate = DateTime.Parse(expireDate).ToShortDateString();

Does anybody know how to simplify the c# code so it’s one line and two. It’s bugging me that I can do it in one line with vb, but not in c#.

decal.DecalExpireDate is a smallDateTime that I’m retrieving with linq.
expireDate is a string that I’m returning in a function

Answer 1

Pretty much exactly how you had it in VB:

    expireDate = DateTime.Parse(decal.DecalExpireDate.ToString()).ToShortDateString();