IsDate() for C# (C Sharp)

As we all know that IsDate() is a function of VB .Net which checks that either a provided object is date or not. Naturally we all think that the same function will be there in C# (C Sharp) as well but this is not the case.

Following is a simple IsDate() function for C# (C Sharp) which acts exactly like VB .Net

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public static bool IsDate(object pDate)

{

DateTime mDate;

if ((pDate != null) && (pDate.ToString().Trim() != ""))

{

return DateTime.TryParse(pDate.ToString(), out mDate);

}

else

{

return false;

}

}