Dave,

>I have a coulpe of questions about using dates in VS2005 and MM.NET. I am building a Web App very similar to the sample Web App in MM that accesses VFP tables.
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>1. When I load my edit form, all of the fields where the date is empty (blank), display with 12/30/1899. How do I get them to display blank? Once the user puts a date in and the form is saved, they display the entered date correctly.
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>2. When the user enters a date in my mmTextBox control, how do I compare and vaildate the entry. In VFP, I would use the CTOD() to see if the entry would return a date or ' / / '. How do I do this in VS2005/MM.NET?
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>3. Finnally, if the user passes a date that is not valid, I would like to display a simple error message. In VFP, I would use the messagebox(). I did find a mmMessageBox function but could not get it to work.

Regarding the empty date question, are you creating a Web Forms application? The reason I ask is because your second question is about MessageBox() and MessageBox is a Windows Forms class, so it doesn't work on the web.

To convert a date from string to DateTime you can do this:

DateTime.Parse(MyDate);

I recommend checking out the Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET. Its help file contains a list of Visual FoxPro commands and shows you the equivalent command in .NET.

Best Regards,