Sunday 28 June 2015

Parse date from yyyy-MM-dd string

Often developer needs to parse formatted string to object.

Here is example I am commonly using:

I have a date time string:

var myString = "2015-06-05"

I need to parse it into DateTime variable 

var myString = "2015-06-05";
var parsedDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(myString, "yyyy-MM-dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None);