Author Archives: Costas Kounadis

Error1: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime
Error2: The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.

How to fix it?

• Set culture in web.config (in system.web section)
  In an ASP.NET Web page, you can set to two culture values, the Culture and UICulture properties. The Culture value determines the results of culture-dependent functions, such as the date, number, and currency formatting, and so on. The UICulture value determines which resources are loaded for the page.

Solution

add a globalization section to the Web.config file, and then set the uiculture and culture attributes, as shown in the following example:

<globalization uiCulture=»el-GR» culture=»el-GR» />

Culture list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo%28v=vs.80%29.aspx