Nancy,
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>Actually, FoxPro Dates are just translated into .NET DateTime type through the DataReader or DataTable. I think that where you're getting a bit off track is thinking that
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>drWORK_HIS["date_clos"]
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>is a DateTime or Date. It's actually neither. By itself, it's just a plain old object.
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>Also, keep in mind you can use the following:
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>Convert.ToDateTime(drWORK_HIS["date_clos"])
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Thank you for explaining this. I didn't know of the class/method Convert. Actually I remember seeing it somewhere but as usually not paying attention <g>.
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>Hope it works for you. In case you haven't already noticed, .NET doesn't have any idea about empty dates, unfortunately. So, empty dates come across as 12/30/1899, which is quite a bother. I don't understand why it at least couldn't come in as DateTime.MinValue, but that's how it is.
I got hit by this 12/30/1899 date some time ago. And the way I deal with it is I always compare the date to year 1990. If it is before that date, I display empty date.
Thank you.
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