Subtracting Dates

[tmryan]

New to C#, and I'm looking for a way to find the number of days between 2 dates. I've created 2 dateTimePickers (short format) on a form. I want to calculate the number of days between them. In VB I could do it with "lblResult.Caption = Abs(DateDiff("d", dtpStartDate, dtpendDate)) & " days"". I can't find something similar to DateDiff.

Thanks
Tim

Tim Ryan
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[chiph]

You're going to kick youself, and then begin to like C# even more.

You use the subtraction operator:

TimeSpan ts = dtpStartDate - dtpendDate;
lblResult.Caption = ts.Days.ToString() & " days";

In theory, you could do something like this, but I don't have my IDE up at the moment to test for you:

lblResult.Caption = (dtpStartDate - dtpendDate).Days.ToString() & " days";

Chip H.


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[tmryan]

Thanks chiph - that did the trick.

Tim Ryan
PROGRESS Developer

 

[chiph]

Did the second form work?

Chip H.


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