How to Input Output and Process Dates in Visual Basic VB.Net

In this lesson we fully explain and provide examples of Visual Basic Input and Output Formats for Dates.

We also show how to do Date Arithmetic, Custom Display Formats, and how to write Custom Functions for Processing Dates.

See the full lesson contents in the Video Timeline Index further below.

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VIDEO TIMELINE INDEX:

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00:00 to 01:33 Introduction and Lesson Contents
01:33 to 03:36 Preview of Finished VB Project
03:36 to 05:44 Screen Form Design for Dates Calculator
05:44 to 08:11 Input Date Formats available in VB.Net
08:11 to 09:49 Getting Current Date and Time for Today
09:49 to 11:33 How to Add and Subtract Days to a Date
11:33 to 13:35 Custom Formatting Output Dates for Display
13:35 to 15:07 Custom Output Format to do dd-mm-yyyy
15:07 to 15:49 Custom Output Format for dd Month Name yyyy
15:49 to 18:14 Validating Input Dates from Screen Forms
18:14 to 30:09 Custom Function for Validating Input Dates
30:09 to 33:02 How to Reject Future Dated Birth Dates
33:02 to 36:46 Coding the Days Difference Calculator
36:46 to 38:22 Converting Text Box Strings to Date Format
38:22 to 40:01 Program Code for the Days Difference Function
40:01 to 41:28 Subroutine Code to call Days Difference Function
41:28 to 42:04 Testing the Days Difference Function
42:04 to 43:58 Calculating the Age in Years from a Birth Date
43:58 to 45:08 General Uses for the Days Difference Function
45:08 to 47:00 Determining Generation Group from Birth Date
47:01 to 47:40 Testing the Final Dates Processing Program
47:40 to 49:20 Challenge Task - Determine Star Sign
49:20 to 50:40 Doing our Website Programming Course
50:40 to 51:37 Video Wrap Up and Outro

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