Pass datetime string from xml

If you have a lot of these, you could leave the XML as it is but change the format to exclude the colon:

dateTimePicker1.Value = DateTime.ParseExact(person.Date, "HHmm", null);

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mike Delvotti14y ago

Vulpes, forgive me your code got me on the right track, the format in the xml was '1445', as soon as i changed it to '14:45' the below line now works, Doh!!

dateTimePicker1.Value = DateTime.ParseExact(person.Date, "HH:mm", null);
Thanks again.

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Vulpes14y ago

If you've extracted it OK from the XML file, then it should work. For example this code works fine:

string Date = "14:45";

var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(Date, "HH:mm", null);

MessageBox.Show(dt.ToString());

So, if it's not working then the chances are that you've not extracted it OK. Try:

MessageBox,Show(person.Date);

to make sure.

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mike Delvotti14y ago

Hi Vulpes,

It's a string in an elemnt stored like so:

14:45

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Vulpes14y ago

Is person.Date a string or is it an XElement or XmlElement object?

If it's the latter, you'll need to parse its Value or InnerText property.

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