how to access to different values in textbox ?

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hii ,
i have one start date textbox . in which i want to display date as dd-mmm-yy format , but in code behind i want to access as dd-mm-yy .. how can i do that ?

coz previously i was displaying dd-mm-yy as a text field so was eaisy to retrive the same value in code behind .. but now the requirement is to disply in different format .. but then i need to navigate each code behind for that and made changes .. please suggest

Posted 26-Aug-13 20:39pm

Torakami

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phil.o · Answer 1 · 2013-08-26T21:05:00

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You should handle your date in code behind as a DateTime field, and only use the format to present it to the user (client side).

Handling dates from their string representation is a nightmare and a very bad practice.

Posted 26-Aug-13 21:05pm

phil.o