Setting DatePicker Value

I currently have a program that takes the value from a datePicker and have the date saved as a string. I only needed the date not the time so i used the following code to save the date value:

DateTime StartDate;
String inMyString;
savedDate = datePicker1.SelectedDate.Value.Date;
inMyString =   savedDate.Date.ToShortDateString()

I have the inMyString pushedBack into my list and now i want to place it back into the datePicker.

On MSDN is shows me the following example to set the date.

dateTimePicker1.Value = new DateTime(2001, 10, 20);

the problem is that having .Value after my date picker is not an option (it doesn't show in Intellisense.)

I have also tried

datePicker1.SelectedDate.Value= new DateTime(inMyString)

and also converting the inMyString to type DateTime but it still does not work.

Any thoughts on how to do this?

Any Suggestions and comments are appreciated.

Thanks!开发者_StackOverflow

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Try this:

datePicker1.SelectedDate = new DateTime(2001, 10, 20);

If you need to take datetime from string:

datePicker1.SelectedDate = DateTime.Parse(inMyString);

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Side note:

You can replace those 3 lines:

String inMyString;
savedDate = datePicker1.SelectedDate.Value.Date;
inMyString = savedDate.Date.ToShortDateString();

with one:

var inMyString = datePicker1.SelectedDate.Value.ToShortDateString();

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Another side note: don't know if there is a reason to it, but you might consider storing datetime as dattime, not as a string.

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If you want to show today's date in WPF C#, use this method:

datePicker1.SelectedDate = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1);