Programmatically create Infopath form in SharePoint form library with dates - forms

Question

I am programmatically creating InfoPath forms in a form library within SharePoint 2010 from data in a CSV file. It all works fine apart from the date fields. The form will refuse to open with a format error. I have tried multiple ways of formatting the date but no luck so far. Code below...
If I format 2016-10-10 then it does show in the Forms Library view but I still can not open the form. It just shows a datatype error.
// Get the data from CSV file.
string[,] values = LoadCsv("ImportTest.csv");
//Calulate how many columns and rows in the dataset
int countCols = values.GetUpperBound(1) + 1;
int countRows = values.GetUpperBound(0) + 1;
string rFormSite = "siteurl";
// opens the site
SPWeb webSite = new SPSite(rFormSite).OpenWeb();
// gets the blank file to copy
SPFile BLANK = webSite.Folders["EventSubmissions"].Files["Blank.xml"];
// reads the blank file into an xml document
MemoryStream inStream = new MemoryStream(BLANK.OpenBinary());
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(inStream);
XmlDocument xdBlank = new XmlDocument();
xdBlank.Load(reader);
reader.Close();
inStream.Close();
//Get latest ID from the list
int itemID = GetNextID(webSite, "EventSubmissions");
if (itemID == -1) return;
//Iterate each row of the dataset
for (int row = 1; row < countRows; row++)
{
//display current event name
Console.WriteLine("Event name - " + values[row, 4]);
XmlDocument xd = xdBlank;
XmlElement root = xd.DocumentElement;
//Cycling through all columns of the document//
for (int col = 0; col < countCols; col++)
{
string field = values[0, col];
string value = values[row, col];
switch (field)
{
case "startDate":
value = //How do format the date here ;
break;
case "endDate":
value = "";
break;
case "AutoFormID":
value = itemID.ToString();
break;
}
XmlNodeList nodes = xd.GetElementsByTagName("my:" + field);
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
node.InnerText = value;
}
}
// saves the XML Document back as a file
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding encoding = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding();
SPFile newFile = webSite.Folders["EventSubmissions"].Files.Add(itemID.ToString() + ".xml", (encoding.GetBytes(xd.OuterXml)), true);
itemID++;
}
Console.WriteLine("Complete");
Console.ReadLine();
Thanks

Answer 1

For me this worked
DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd")