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BaseCompareValidator::GetDateElementOrder Method

Determines the order in which the month, day, and year appear in a date value for the current culture.

Namespace:  System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

protected:
static String^ GetDateElementOrder()

Return Value

Type: System::String
A string that represents the order in which the month, day, and year appear in a date value for the current culture.

The month, day, and year of a date value can appear in different orders depending on the current culture settings. The GetDateElementOrder method is used to determine the order in which these values appear. The following table shows the different values returned by this method.

Date element order

Return value

Day, Month, Year

"dmy"

Month, Day, Year

"mdy"

Year, Month, Day

"ymd"

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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