Question

Obviously the reader doesn’t like this format incoming from the response XML.

Wondering if I can reformat this. Trying to convert to DateTime using the following code with my XmlReader:

reader.ReadContentAsDateTime(); 

Answer 1

Xml readers generally expect dates/times in a very specific format; you can use this yourself using XmlConvert:

string s = XmlConvert.ToString(DateTime.Now); DateTime when = XmlConvert.ToDateTime(s); 

If you are using something else, you’ll have to read it as a string and use DateTime.TryParseExact (or similar) to specify the actual format string:

string s = reader.ReadContentAsString(); DateTime when = DateTime.ParseExact(s, 'M/d/yy hh:mm tt',      CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); 

If you are using XmlSerializer, you could use a shim property to do the conversion – let me know if this is what you are doing…