Date format and adding a day in vb.net

Question

I am trying to add a day to a date retrieved as below

//reading fromdatabase
Dim expenddt_ As String = rdr("Expected_End_Date").ToString

Dim dt_1 As Date = Date.Parse(expenddt_)
Dim expenddt As String = dt_1.ToShortDateString()
txtenddt.Text = expenddt

Suppose if expenddt_ the value comes as "11/1/2012 12:00:00 AM" , than dt_1 has the value #11/1/2012# and expenddt has "11/1/2012" so in textbox txtenddt the value appears as expenddt .

Now when i try to add a day to dt_1 as

Dim test As Date = dt_1.AddDays(+1)

Than the value in test comes as 11/2/2012, ie a month gets added and not the day. How can i add a day?can anyone help me with this issue?

Answer 1

here is a simple example:

Dim today As System.DateTime
Dim answer As System.DateTime

today = System.DateTime.Now
answer = today.AddDays(36)

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Answer 2

Well, tahnk you guys . i parsed The date to mm//dd/yyyy format and than added a day to it. When i posted this question i was unable to parse the date to mm/dd/yyyy format. Now i did it and this question is solved.

Answer 3

I think your output format is MM/DD/YYYY, so you can try dt_1.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy") to see the content in the format you expected.

You can also check the Day property.