vb.net parst string from date code example

Example 1: string to date vb

Dim iDate As String = "05/05/2005"
Dim oDate As DateTime = Convert.ToDateTime(iDate)
MsgBox(oDate.Day & " " & oDate.Month & "  " & oDate.Year)

Example 2: convert str to datetime

import datetime

# str value "Apr 2, 2019" convert into any format. 
datetime.datetime.strptime('Apr 2, 2019', '%b %d, %Y').strftime('%a, %d %b %Y')