Casting GeoRssLayer's PublishDate to DateTime return InvalidCastException

[linusang]

hi i tried this code but it returns me InvalidCastException

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

[MartenLiebster]

hi i tried this code but it returns me InvalidCastException

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

Have you put a breakpoint on the line? What does the PublishDate hold?

Is it a string? If so, you might need to do a DateTime.Parse() or DateTime.TryParse().

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Or the date might just be in an invalid format. Thus the first line of questions above.

[linusang]

it is in DateTime type... as documented here

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

[JenniferNery]

You can do the following:

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

Jennifer

[linusang]

You can do the following:

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

Jennifer

thanks it works