You can either translate it at an SQL level, http://whatiseeinit.blogspot.com/2012/02/conversion-of-dates-in-sql.html
Or else at a .Net level, http://www.geekzilla.co.uk/View00FF7904-B510-468C-A2C8-F859AA20581F.htm Whatever you do, do not do it manually by altering strings. On 29 February 2012 18:22, Eddy Wu <eddyw...@gmail.com> wrote: > my project contains one DateTimePicker, one Button and a ListBox. each > time the user click the button then the *date string* value would pass in > the ListBox Control, I had declared one User Defined Function named > "GetSQLRawFormattedDate(ByVal SDate As String) As String" to handled the > reverse order of the character string representation of the *Date String*from > right to left so it would looks like "20120301", I think this > formatted *datestring* can then be pass to the MySql table structure, but > unfortunately it ran to did not any changes to the result as I expected > before. > > please examine the code snippet I had done so far : > ............................................ > ............................................ > ............................................ > > // The Trigger Section > Private Sub BtnParser_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As > System.EventArgs) Handles BtnParser.Click > Dim strdate As String = DateTimePicker1.Value.ToShortDateString > Dim sqlformstr As String = GetSQLRawFormattedDate(strdate.Trim) > > ListBox1.Items.Add(sqlformstr) > > End Sub > > Private Function GetSQLRawFormattedDate(ByVal SDate As String) As String > Dim tempStr As String = SDate > Dim retStr As String = Nothing > > For n As Integer = tempStr.Length - 1 To 0 > If (tempStr.Chars(n) <> "/"c) Or (tempStr.Chars(n) <> "-"c) > Then > retStr &= String.Concat("", tempStr(n)) > End If > Next > > Return tempStr.Trim > End Function > > but still didn't show any positive changes, please help ... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML > Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. > To post to this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > dotnetdevelopment+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetdevelopment?hl=en?hl=en > or visit the group website at http://megasolutions.net > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting" group. To post to this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to dotnetdevelopment+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dotnetdevelopment?hl=en?hl=en or visit the group website at http://megasolutions.net