Date Property

[Avanti]

I have a date property in the class and I wanted to assign it a min date.

Public class test

Public Property CreatedBy() As String

Get

Return mCreatedBy

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As String)

mCreatedBy = Value

End Set

End Property

Public Property StartDate() As Date

Get

Return mStartDate

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As Date)

mStartDate = Value

End Set

End Property

end class


<Root>
<row name='name1' testDate='' />
<row name='name1' testDate='2/12/04' />
</Root>

I have an xml and I wanted to be able to assign the values to the
properties.
If I have a date that has a "" value in xml how do I initialize the date
property

If I do

objclassTest.StartDate =
IIf(IsDate(objnode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("testDate").Value.ToString),
CType(objnode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("testDate").Value.ToString, Date),
Date.MinValue.ToShortDateString)



I get the error invalid cast from string "" to date.



Please help how do I do this.

Thanks,

Pranav

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Instead of using ctype to convert the string to a date try using
datetime.parse

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...f/html/frlrfsystemdatetimeclassparsetopic.asp

Ken
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I have a date property in the class and I wanted to assign it a min date.

Public class test

Public Property CreatedBy() As String

Get

Return mCreatedBy

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As String)

mCreatedBy = Value

End Set

End Property

Public Property StartDate() As Date

Get

Return mStartDate

End Get

Set(ByVal Value As Date)

mStartDate = Value

End Set

End Property

end class


<Root>
<row name='name1' testDate='' />
<row name='name1' testDate='2/12/04' />
</Root>

I have an xml and I wanted to be able to assign the values to the
properties.
If I have a date that has a "" value in xml how do I initialize the date
property

If I do

objclassTest.StartDate =
IIf(IsDate(objnode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("testDate").Value.ToString),
CType(objnode.Attributes.GetNamedItem("testDate").Value.ToString, Date),
Date.MinValue.ToShortDateString)



I get the error invalid cast from string "" to date.



Please help how do I do this.

Thanks,

Pranav

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Avanti,

I would not use the IIF. It gives mostly a lot of unpredicted results.

Cor