If you were using any version of Foxpro you would have your choice of MDY, DMY, YMD with a single statement, and you would not be concerned about the Y2K as date fields in all xbase flavours have internally stored the century.
I suppose you could create a subclass of the textbox to encapsulate the boring process you mention... you know.. try to make VB behave like VFP .. :))


>hi,
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> you mean to say that for every date reference we got to treat it as a string, oh it's boring even foxpro has it. by the wherein pakistan are you from.
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>thank for your response
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>Regards
>shashi