vb.net time & date

[CJVann]

I'm converting scripts to *.vb, but what's the proper syntax for time/date?
In VBS, the command is:

If Time<TimeSerial(17,00,00) and WeekdayName(Weekday(Now))<>"Saturday" then ...

But in vb.net it just says Scipt compile error: Name 'Time' is not declared.on line 21

[Rupp]

You now need to prefix Time with DateTime like DateTime.now A quick google search turned up this for more examples:
http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxt...timeclass.aspx

[CJVann]

Thanks Rupp - I tested a few of those, but with little success:

hs.speak(datetime.dayofweek)
hs.speak(datetime.time)
hs.speak(datetime.date)
hs.speak(datetime.timeofday)
hs.speak(datetime.hour)

These worked though:

hs.speak(datetime.now)
hs.speak(datetime.today)

All I really need to do in this case is check to see if it's before 5:30PM and if it's a particular day. I looked around the net for a long time as well, but am not finding what I need.

[MrTea]

Hia

The reason you're hitting problems is because you need an instance of the datetime object to call some of those properties.

Rather than datetime.dayofweek, you need...

Now.DayOfWeek
Now.Date
Now.TimeOfDay
Now.Hour

Depending on the answer type that is returned you may also need to put .tostring on the end.

e.g.

Now.TimeOfDay.ToString()

It's a personal choice but I use Visual Basic Developer Express Edition (free download) for writing vb.net code, and Visual Web Developer Express Edition for asp.net code.

I find it's really useful becasue it makes it virtually impossible to get code like the above wrong (by highlighting errors and problems and also by providing intellisense so you can see what properties all the objects have)

Anyway HTH

[MrTea]

Try this...

   		If Now.DayOfWeek <> DayOfWeek.Saturday Then
   			If Now.TimeOfDay.ToString < TimeValue("17:30:00") Then
   				' Do stuff here
   			End If
   		End If

[jon00]

If you are just converting VBScript to VB.net scripts just use:

"TimeofDay" instead of "Time"
"Today" instead of "Date"

i.e

hs.speak (TimeofDay)

[CJVann]

Awesome - Thanks guys, that should be a huge help!