Converting a string to DateTime object

Question

I want to convert a string in a specific format to a DateTime.

My specific string format is \"dd-mm-yyyy\".

I cannot do any string

Answer 1

This sounds like a localization problem - if that is the case I recommend using one of the overloads of DateTime.parse that accepts a System.IFormatProvider. From the docs:

Type: System.IFormatProvider
An object that supplies culture-specific format information about s. 

This also allows your code to be flexible - if the date format ever changes in the future to support a different culture, you can just change the format provider.