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The Parse method tries to convert the string representation of a date and time value to its DateTime equivalent. It tries to parse the input string completely without throwing a FormatException exception.
For example, the "d" standard format string indicates that a date and time value is to be displayed using a short date pattern. For the invariant culture, this pattern is "MM/dd/yyyy". For the fr-FR culture, it is "dd/MM/yyyy". For the ja-JP culture, it is "yyyy/MM/dd".
DateTime.ParseExact(input,"yyyyMMdd HH:mm",null);
assuming you meant to say that minutes followed the hours, not seconds - your example is a little confusing.
The ParseExact documentation details other overloads, in case you want to have the parse automatically convert to Universal Time or something like that.
As @Joel Coehoorn mentions, there's also the option of using TryParseExact, which will return a Boolean value indicating success or failure of the operation - I'm still on .Net 1.1, so I often forget this one.
If you need to parse other formats, you can check out the Standard DateTime Format Strings.
Thanks for the tip, i used this to get my date "20071122" parsed, I needed to add datetimestyles, I used none and it worked:
DateTime dt = DateTime.MinValue;
DateTime.TryParseExact("20071122", "yyyyMMdd", null,System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out dt);
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