Try this<br><br><div class="message">Dim dpReturn As Date = CType(Me.dpReturnDate.Value, 
Date)<br>Dim dpDue As Date = dpDueDate.Value<br>Dim dpReturn As Date = 
dpReturnDate.Value<br>Dim dpDue As Date = CType(Me.dpReturnDate.Value, 
Date)<br>Dim MyDifference As TimeSpan<br>MyDifference = dpReturn.Subtract(dpDue)    
&#39; find the number of days apart<br><br></div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, MICHAEL AKUNGA <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michaelakunga@gmail.com">michaelakunga@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I intend to get the difference of days between two given dates unfortunately all methods have used are firing an exception especially <br>
on type casting a string to date<br>so far have used <br><i style="font-family:arial black,sans-serif">DateTime.parse()<br>
and<br>DateDiff()<br>anyone any idea</i><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>MICHAEL A. AKUNGA<br>(+254) 0726 174 815<br><a href="mailto:michaelakunga@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelakunga@gmail.com</a><br>
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