Since I use datareader and not dataset your solution won't work for me. But I will save it for the times when I use dataset.
Thank you so much for your help.
>I think this is cause the VFPOLEDB return a vaue of 0 rather then NULL to support empty dates in VFP.
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>Returning 0 causes .Net to store the beginning of time or "12/31/1899 12:00 00000" where NET actually store System.DbNull.value as an empty date.
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>In my OleDbDataAdapter i will use a string like this to fill NULL data values into my dataset.
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>"IIF(EMPTY( dCreated ), null, dCreated ) as DateCreated"
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>I have used it on VFP6,7,8 using the VFPOLEDB 8 driver.
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>- jim
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>>I retrieve a row from a VFP table, as datareader, where a date field has not entry (in VFP). But when I look at it in ASP.NET the date is there and it is 12/30/1899. I know I didn't enter any data in 1899 <g>. Who did?
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>>TIA.
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