How to get the date value from date control that is placed in gridview?

Question

In my ASP.NET project I have one gridview and I have placed the DateControl in gridview using TemplateField. My question is how can I get the Selected Date value? I'm doing my code in VB

My ASP code is

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Release Date" ControlStyle-Width="100">
      <ItemTemplate>
           <uc1:DateControl ID="UCReleaseDate" runat="server" />
      </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

And my vb code is (not working)

 Dim dtReleaseDate As DateTime
dtReleaseDate = DateTime.Parse(GVMaintainBankChallon.Rows(iGVRowIndex).FindControl  ("UCReleaseDate").ToString)

I want to get the Selected Date value in dtReleaseDate variable.. Hope someone will understand this problem and help me..

The gridview image is shown below.

After selecting the date.

I want this selected date to codebehind date variable.

Answer 1

As per comment below, DateControl has a string property named DateValue . Assuming that the date is in MM/dd/yyyy format, this code should work

Dim dateFromControl As String = CType(GVMaintainBankChallon.Rows(iGVRowIndex).FindControl("UCReleaseDate"), DateControl).DateValue

Dim dtReleaseDate As DateTime
dtReleaseDate = DateTime.ParseExact(dateFromControl, "MM/dd/yyyy", Nothing)