Justus thank you for your response but I was a bit mixed with you code there are ambiguous types this is
what I made it.
Dim dpReturn As Date = CType(Me.dpReturnDate.Value, Date)
        Dim dpDue As Date = CType(Me.dpduedate.Value, Date)
        Dim MyDifference As TimeSpan
        MyDifference = dpReturn.Subtract(dpDue)
        ' find the number of days apart
        TextBox1.Text = CInt(MyDifference)
now watch this 
CInt(MyDifference) can not be type casted. ahaaaaa men this thing is holding me up my previous code in the project looks like this

stDate = CDate(.Item(3).ToString) ' this is a date stored in a database being converted to date
                dtDate = DateTime.Parse(stDate, Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-CA"))
                amount = DateDiff(DateInterval.Day, Now, dtDate) * fratepday
ANY SUPPORT HIGHLY APPRECIATED

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM, justus <mutahijustus@gmail.com> wrote:
Try this

Dim dpReturn As Date = CType(Me.dpReturnDate.Value, Date)
Dim dpDue As Date = dpDueDate.Value
Dim dpReturn As Date = dpReturnDate.Value
Dim dpDue As Date = CType(Me.dpReturnDate.Value, Date)
Dim MyDifference As TimeSpan
MyDifference = dpReturn.Subtract(dpDue)    ' find the number of days apart




On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, MICHAEL AKUNGA <michaelakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
I intend to get the difference of days between two given dates unfortunately all methods have used are firing an exception especially
on type casting a string to date
so far have used
DateTime.parse()
and
DateDiff()
anyone any idea

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