>Dmitry-
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>PMFJI.
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>>Unfortunately my DateTime string is of type String. Here is how I get it from a Data Reader:
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>>string strDateClosed = drWORK_HIS["date_clos"].ToString();
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>>Therefore, I can't see how I can apply the method ToShortDateString to it.
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>Well, why not return it from the Property? Something like
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>string strDateClosed = ((DateTime)(drWORK_HIS["date_clos"])).ToString();
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>Another note, although ToShortDateString() would probably work best, recall that you can pass format strings to ToString(). Like
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DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")Nancy,
You are right. What I was missing is that you can get the VFP data to the .NET DateTime type by casting (I think this is the right term). Once your data is in DateTime type there are many ways to manipulate it.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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