get todays date in Web Service application

Question

I have created a web service to send emails with attachments. The attachment location is passed via a string called "StrAttachment". I can pass the actual location of the folder, but this service will run everytime a sale is made to email documents to a client. The location of the folder will always be "C:", but a new folder will be created everyday named by the date, for eg : 20121018. So I need to pass that name to the StrAttachment parameter, so my web service knows which folder to look in.

Any ideas?

Well you have got `DateTime.Today` ! ! – V4Vendetta Oct 18 '12 at 10:31 — V4Vendetta, Oct 18 '12 at 10:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '12 at 10:27

You can set your parameter using DateTime.ToString() and specifying the format:

string StrAttachment = "C:\\" + //your drive letter
                       DateTime.Today.ToString("yyyyMMdd") +  //your current date
                       "yourFoldername"; //other name in the folder (if any)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 10:28

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Have a look here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx

It should be something like DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd")

answered Oct 18 '12 at 10:28

Dan Fox

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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You can get current date with DateTime.Today. You can use it to extract the formatted current data as

folderName = DateTime.ParseExact(DateTime.Today, "yyyyMMdd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString("yyyyMMdd");

There is a quite similar question (well, it doesn't involve the folder part) Convert DateTime to string format("yyyyMMdd")

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Oct 18 '12 at 10:33

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