Can't convert DateTime to string

Question

I'm trying to convert a DateTime to a string but actually the dt variable passed in the getFixtures method is underlined in red.

DateTime dt = DateTime.ParseExact(Calendar.SelectedDate.Value.ToString(), "ddMMyyyy",
                                  CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy");

fixtures.getFixtures(dt);

Error:

Can't convert DateTime to string.

What am I doing wrong?

I _strongly_ suspect `Calendar.SelectedDate.Value` is _already_ a `DateTime` I never heard such an error or exception message before. On which line you get this? What is the complete message? What `fixtures.getFixtures(dt)` do? And you need to assign to something what `ToString` method returns. — Soner Gönül, Jul 31 '15 at 11:26
possible duplicate of [Parse string to DateTime in C#](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5366285/parse-string-to-datetime-in-c-sharp) — Joy Rex, Jul 31 '15 at 11:28

Hossein Narimani Rad · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-31T14:53:00.617

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Seems you want pass a string to the getFixtures but actually you are passing the dt which is a DateTime.

dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy"); does not change the dt to string, so you should save it's output to a string and use that string. Here is the code:

var stringDt = dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy");

fixtures.getFixtures(stringDt );

edited Jul 31 '15 at 14:53

answered Jul 31 '15 at 11:27

Hossein Narimani Rad

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 31 '15 at 11:33

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Your code:

dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy");
fixtures.getFixtures(dt);

If you want to pass string representation of datetime inside a method, change it to :

fixtures.getFixtures(dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy"));

answered Jul 31 '15 at 11:33

Fabjan

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '15 at 11:42

instead of,dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy"); fixtures.getFixtures(dt);

use

string dttime=dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy");
fixtures.getFixtures(dttime);

using dt.ToString("ddMMyyyy") does not converts dt to string, it just returns a new string, dt remains datetime as it was.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 15:11

This is an old way but it works. I added to the model.

private string _displayDate;

    [Display(Name="Display Date")]
    [DataType(DataType.Text)]
    public string DisplayDate
    {
        get
        {
            DateTime dt = new DateTime();
            dt = Convert.ToDateTime(_displayDate);
            return dt.ToShortDateString();
        }
        set { _displayDate = value; }

    }

//Displays: 3/2/1996

Can't convert DateTime to string

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