converting DropDownList Date Month Year to DaeTime

[dhj]

hi

i'm doing a web application using .net and c#

i have three dropdownlists to represent Date,Month and year

my problem is when i try to save this date to the database i need to convert this values to the type DateTime

 

when i'm trying to convert this it's giving me a error saying cannot convert string values to DateTime

 

What can i do ?

is there anyway to slolve this problem?

thanks in advance

[dhj]

i found a answer by my own

string dateString =dropdownlist1.selectedItem.Text+"/" + dropdownlist2.selectedItem.Text + "/" + dropdownlist3.selectedItem.Text;

DateTime convertedDate = DateTime.Parse(dateString);

 

this is how i did it