C# valid date

Question

In a C# 2008 application, I am obtaining a data from a web service via an xml file. In some instance a field is not a must not be a valid datetime value for a sql server 2008 r2 database.
Thus can you tell me:
 1. what check I can do to make certain the value is in a valid date time format?
 2. Also can you tell me how to convert the value to a valid datetime format?

Answer 1

At the beginner level, usually the best method is nothing. There is a lot of experience and development done for C# and .Net. Therefore it is unlikely you need to do anything; it is probably done for you quite well.
 
So you need to be more specific about what you are asking. In what situation do you think you need to explicitly dispose objects?