How to: Parse dates (ASP.NET 2.0)

In ASP.NET 1.x, you would need to warp a try/catch around the DateTime.Parse method to try and parse a string into a DateTime object.
In ASP.NET 2.0, you can use the DateTime.TryParse method to parse your date strings.

DateTime dt;

bool isSuccessful = DateTime.TryParse("05/28/2007",out dt);

If the TryParse was not successful, then it would return false. Also the DateTime returning from the output parameterwil be set to DateTime.MinValue.
Make sure you have the "out" keyword at the beginning of the second parameter, since this parmeter is an output parameter.