I have a text box with a max length of 10 chars so mm/dd/yyyy, however I've been spending the past 30 minutes searching the forums and other sites and the only answer I found was for vb6 and even trying to format it for 2005 it still had a few problems I couldn't iron out.
Right now I have this basic line of code:
Format(Convert.ToDateTime(
But this is throwing up an exception error "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime." When I try typing any digit in the text box.
What I'm really looking for is for VB to automatically add / in the right places after the person adds the date, for example 06051986 or 561985.
Any help would be great, i'm sure this is a quick fix but I've been coding all day and I can't get my head around this.
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I'm also trying to error check for Letters using the following code:
If IsNumeric(DOB.Text) = False Then
MsgBox("Please use correct format")
End If
However it doesn't accept / and if a letter has been entered it stays in the box and i have to manually erase it, would there be a way for vb to stop it going in altogether with the error msg still being displayed?
sorry that should be IsDate not DateTime.IsDate, and DOB.Text not DPB.Text
You can also do it all at once using this
dim dt As DateTime
If DateTime.TryParse(textBox1
'if true then textBox1.Text held a valid date string and dt will hold a valid date. If false then textBox1.Text held an invalid date string.
EndIf
Ororiole your methods are returning false or dont work and the first is making my msgbox show each time. I tried changing the second around to If DateTime.TryParse(DOB.Text
When I'm pulling dates from the database they're already in mm/dd/yyyy format, but when someones entering a new date in that same field it needs to only allow the numbers and /. It's giving me the error even when entering a number.
this does work. I just tried it.
If you are doing this:
If DateTime.TryParse(DOB.Text
then DOB.Text is in fact an invalid date string. The user needs to enter it like 12/15/1988 and it will return true, otherwise false. You can also use the masked text box like Hoo mentioned and select a date format and that already has the / / in there. Then the user does not need to enter them.
I just found out that theres a maskedtextbox option which no one mentioned lol, I will be using that from now on instead of hassling with this as its working for me. It has all the built in features with limiting the user to so many characters, to digits only etc instead of hard coding it. So for anyone else who reads this its another option to take a gander at.
Thanks for your help anyway.
I apologise about my previous post, HooKooDooKu did indeed mention it, but i thought it was a coded attribute that I needed to apply with my code, such as DOB.MaskedTextBox which took me in circles for hours until I realised it was an actual textbox option from my toolbox window. This is what I meant to reference.
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by: HooKooDooKuPosted on 2008-10-25 at 21:28:35ID: 22806100
You can not pass a string to "Convert.ToDateTime" that is not a valid date.
There are two tools that are available to you:
The first is that VB has a control MaskedTextBox where you can set a mask that looks like a date.
The second is a function "IsDate" that will let you know if a string can be interpreted as a date.
What you need to do is once the user has keyed in the full date, use IsDate to test if the string is a valid date, and if it is not, popup a message box telling them the field does not have a valid date in it and set focus back to the date field. Only AFTER the string has passed the IsDate test should you use Convert.ToDateTime to convert the input string to a date value.