ASP.NET 4 Vis WEB Dev 2010 How do I build a date? the dateserial function no longer works

[DougP]

Dim Today As Date
Today = DateSerial(Year(Now), Month(Now), Day(Now))

Day has a red line under it?
intellisense note "Day is a type and cannot be used as an expression" ???


DougP

 

[SgtJarrow]

I am not sure why you would do that...If you want a date object with the current date in it, you should be able to use (note: I am not using Today as my variable name as this creates unclear code in my opinion because of reserverd/system keywords in various code languages):

Dim CurrentDate As Date = DateTime.Today
or
Dim CurrentDate As Date = DateTime.Now '(with current time included)

If you want to build the date with a DateSerial, I recommend you use something like:

Dim CurrentDate As Date = DateSerial(DateTime.Today.Year, DateTime.Today.Month, DateTime.Today.Day)

This format is more in line with best practices and .Net framework usage.

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx#Y0

for more details.

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