Concatenating strings to be a Date value

If I have 3 strings: Day, Month, Year (i.e. "01", "10", "1980")

How do I concatenate these strings so that they can be recognized as a Date type with formating mm/dd/yyyy. I can change them to be integers if needed. I'm thinking something along the lines of:

Code:

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Dim birthDate As Date

birthDate = (Month + "/" + Day + "/" + Year)

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But this code doesn't work.

look at the overload method 2 of the date
Dim birthDate As New Date(val(Year), val(Month), val(Day))

This would probably work, except that in my MS Access database the Date field is formated like mm/dd/yyyy. I forgot to mention before that I was sending this date to be stored in a database.

So that code is giving me an error because it doesn't match the format I think. How do I make it this format, and do I do this during the creation of the birthDate variable?

Not quite sure I understand the problem this code shows how to do it with 3 strings for month,day, year and the second just sets a date for a string date

Dim d As String = "15"
Dim m As String = "01"
Dim y As String = "2000"
Dim ds As String = "01/15/2000"
Dim birthdate As New Date(CInt(y), CInt(m), CInt(d))
Dim birthdate1 As Date = CDate(ds)

Console.Write(birthdate.ToShortDateString)
Console.Write(birthdate1.ToShortDateString)

Thank you I did get it to work =)