>>This might work for you:
>>

>>DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
>>
>>DateTime start = now.Date;
>>DateTime end = now.Date;
>>end = end.AddDays(1);
>>end = end.AddSeconds(-1);
>>
>>MessageBox.Show(start.ToString(),"start");
>>MessageBox.Show(end.ToString(),"end");
>>

>
>This is an interesting approach. The one I did was similar to the approach I used in VFP:
>
>

>        ltDate1 = DateTime.Parse(Format(tdDate, "dd/MM/yyyy 00:00:00"))
>        ltDate2 = DateTime.Parse(Format(tdDate, "dd/MM/yyyy 23:59:59"))
>

Just as many ways to skin the cat with .NET as there are with VFP :)