How to check the date by due date

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Hi,

This is regarding the checking the Date. In my application, i have date field where it will set to 2nd june, 2016 (as a deadline).
What i have to get now is, tomorrow, i should get an email (i have the email code) based on the Date field.

How can i check this? any help is appreciated.

What I have tried:

I tried Date.Now but it is not working. I think i went wrong somewhere.

Posted 31-May-16 23:21pm

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Updated 31-May-16 23:43pm

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri 1-Jun-16 5:35am

Use `System.DateTime.Now` to get current datetime.
It would be great if you can share the code you have tried so far so that we can suggest an appropriate solution to your problem.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-05-31T23:43:00

If you have a dead line to check then it's simple:

C#

DateTime deadLine = new DateTime(2016, 6, 2);
...
if (DateTime.Now >= deadLine && emailNotSentYet)
   {
   // Send your email.
   emailNotYetSent = false;
   ...
   }

But just writing that code won't automatically send the email. First, your app has to be running at the time, and you would need to check repeatedly in order to catch the time, possibly with a Timer control.

What I would do is to create a small app that had no UI, but that just read the deadline from a file or a database, and checked it against the current date. If it should, it sends the email and kills the deadline in the file. Either way it then exits.
I'd then arrange for the Windows Scheduler to run that every half hour or so.

Make sense?