>I would like to convert a date string to a datetime value. I found a thread on doing that using DateTime.TryParse and that works fine. However, I would like to know why I can't get the datetimeconverter to work. Here's what I tried. I always ended up with a date time value of 1/1/0001. Although I have shown hard-coded strings here, in my test, I was using strings passed as parameters and used paramstring.ToString() for the string value, if that makes any difference. Thanks.
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>            DateTime dtBegDate;
>            DateTime dtEndDate;
>            string dstrBegDate = '1/1/2006';
>            string dstrEndDate = '12/31/2006';
>            TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(dtBegDate).ConvertFrom(dstrBegDate);
>            TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(dtEndDate).ConvertFrom(dstrEndDate);
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This works for me (current culture EN-US):

            DateTime dtBegDate;
            DateTime dtEndDate;
            string dstrBegDate = "1/1/2006";
            string dstrEndDate = "12/31/2006";
            dtBegDate = (DateTime)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(DateTime)).ConvertFrom(dstrBegDate);
            dtEndDate = (DateTime)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(typeof(DateTime)).ConvertFrom(dstrEndDate);

Cetin