title: Parsing the textbox text to date time
body: <p>I am using asp.net 4.0 and using ajax toolkit calander extender to get values in date filed from the user.
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  I am trying to parse the value in the datetime filld as follows</p>
  
  <pre><code>DateTime.ParseExact("10/10/2013", "MM/dd/yyyy", null)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which is not working. I was going throught my code and came to a strange result
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  When I put <code>-</code> inplace of <code>\</code> it started woking.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody explain why it is like that. </p>