Question

I’m writing a application on managed c++ so my problem is I can’t seem to find fast and easy way to parse this string to DateTime:

2011-11-21 18:24:58

Answer 1

Have you tried

using namespace System;
DateTime^ dt = gcnew DateTime;
dt = DateTime::Parse("2011-11-21 18:24:58");

If Parse is unable to parse your string into a date time, it will throw an FormatException, which you can catch and examine the error to see why it failed.

try
{
    using namespace System;
    DateTime^ dt = gcnew DateTime;
    dt = DateTime::Parse("2011-11-21 18:24:58");
}
catch (FormatException^ e)
{
    System::Console::WriteLine(e->Message);
}