Casting GeoRssLayer's PublishDate to DateTime return InvalidCastException

Question

hi i tried this code but it returns me InvalidCastException

DateTime eqDateTime = (DateTime)g.Attributes["PublishDate"];

linusang · Answer

You can do the following:
  DateTime dt = ((DateTimeOffset)g.Attributes["PublishDate"]).DateTime;

Jennifer

thanks it works

JenniferNery · Answer

You can do the following:
  DateTime dt = ((DateTimeOffset)g.Attributes["PublishDate"]).DateTime;

Jennifer

linusang · Answer

it is in DateTime type... as documented here

http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/apiref/api_start.htm