Parse C# string to DateTime
Absolutely. Guessing the format from your string, you can use ParseExact
string format = "ddMMyyyyHHmm";
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(value, format, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
or TryParseExact
:
DateTime dt;
bool success = DateTime.TryParseExact(value, format,
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);
The latter call will simply return false
on parse failure, instead of throwing an exception - if you may have bad data which shouldn't cause the overall task to fail (e.g. it's user input, and you just want to prompt them) then this is a better call to use.
EDIT: For more details about the format string details, see "Custom Date and Time Format Strings" in MSDN.
You could use:
DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(
date,
"ddMMyyyyHHmm",
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);