Not able to Parse DataTime From String to DATETIME

Question

I am trying to Convert Date from string "01-07-2015" . I have tried all method DateTime.Parse and DateTime.ParseExact and cultural Varaint too but I am not able to parse the datetime.

string dateTimeString = item.startDate; 
var dateTime = DateTime.Parse(item.startDate); 
DateTime edate = DateTime.Parse(item.endDate);
if (sdate <= datetime && datetime <= edate)
{
    periodList.Add(item.fsid);
}

Output I am getting is {01-01-0001 12:00:00:AM}

Answer 1

This should work:

var dateTime = "01-07-2015";
var date = DateTime.ParseExact(dateTime, "mm-dd-yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

demo .