First, if this is in the wrong forum group, my apologies.
I'm righting a Visual Studio 2008 SOAP CLIENT in C#; it will talk to a legacy COBOL (server)program. i'm doing a datenow and splitting it into pieces. Each receiving field (YY, MM, DD, HH, etc) is PIC 9(2), Old school COBOL programmers should be familiar with that; (i.e. if month is 5 then MM is 05).
In debug (see code below), The first thing I noticed is that the CLIENT (not trying to get to the server yet) date/time data is all in HEX. SO i belive a need to covert all these items to DEC. (i.e. year 7DB becomes 2011).
The other problem i'm having is that the millisecnds (per VS online help, if I read it right) can be up to 3 digits (999). I need to "stuff" that into a PIC 9(2) (truncate the last digit ...
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