get date format

[Jayesh Talsaniya]

how to get the date format in vb? Jayesh Talsaniya

[NetRams]

Do you need to extract, month, day, year from date? use -> Date.month , Date.day, Date.year. Also you can convert date to shortdate, shorttime, longdate and longtime as string.

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[Jayesh Talsaniya]

no i dont mean that. i want to check the format fo the date that is in the textbox contol. wether it is dd/mm/yyyy or /mm/dd/yyyy or other.... Jayesh Talsaniya

[NetRams]

In VB.net there is no direct control to check format. Try with masked text box. You have to write own code on keypress event - first 2 digit should be below 12 (if it is month) and so on.

Be simple and Be sample.

[Jayesh Talsaniya]

oh is it so? k thanx for replying. now i wil code for that. regards Jayesh Talsaniya

[Dave Kreskowiak]

Unless you limit the input of the user, there's no way to tell what format the date is in, reliably. Think about it. Which number is the month and which is the day in "6/6/07"? With restricting the user to a known format, it's impossible to tell. You could get a good clue if you looked at the culture information though. Chances are, the entered date will follow the standard format for a country. Mostly... Check out the CultureInfo class. You can get the current culture your code is running under and get the DateTimeFormat from there. This would be the culture of the O/S is setup for, NOT necessarily the one the user typed into a TextBox.

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