>>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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>Even the CLR datetime type can not store null. What we do is consider DateTime.MinValue an empty date. If the date field is that we treat it like an empty... for example, in our aspx page we would do something like:
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>this.eeTermDate.Text = (Employee.TermDate == DateTime.MinValue)?"":Employee.TermDate
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>Then, when setting the parameter value for the sp, something like:
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>parameter[5].Value = (Employee.TermDate == DateTime.MinValue) ? Convert.DBNull : Employee.TermDate
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>BOb
BOb,
Thank you very much for the input. I will try using .MinValue too.
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