How to convert Fuzzy date as Date field in SQL and VB.net

Question

I have a duedate field on a table which the datatype is Fuzzydate. How to convert this to Date field in SQL and VB?

For example the Duedate on backend is : Duedate = 20160531 and I wan to convert it as Duedate = 2016-05-31

Answer 1

If this is always in the exact format you specified then you can use DateTime.ParseExact:

dateValue = DateTime.ParseExact("20160531", "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

If it is in a number of different formats, you can use TryParseExact a number of times with different formats or just:

CDate()

Then to convert it to whatever date format you need:

dateValue.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")