Neil,
Thank you so much for your help. I will try to apply your suggestion.
>Dmitry,
>
>I find the easiest way to validate a field in ASP.NET is to use a WebControl validator. For example, if you wanted to validate the date field is formatted correctly then you would use a text control associate a control based on the following class.
>
>protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox CompletionDate;
>protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.CompareValidator CompletionDateCompareValidator;
>
>The CompareValidator control supports the following properties:-
>
>Type=Date
>ErrorMessage=Date format is incorrect
>ControlToValidate=CompletionDate
>Operator=DateTypeCheck
>
>Once you need the value as a System.DateTime type then you can convert the contents as the value should be validated correctly.
>
>Convert.ToDateTime(CompletionDate.Text)
>
>I am by no means an ASP.NET expert but this seems to work for my limited requirements.
>
>Regards
>Neil
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