assign null value to datetime

[vince]

I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince

[Horatiu Ripa]

MSDN:
"Unlike reference types, it is not possible for a value type to contain the
null value."

DateTime is a value type.

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"vince" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince

[Jan Tielens]

Since DateTime is a Value Type (not a Reference Type), so you can't assign
null or Nothing to it. If you want to do something simelar, you could use
the MinValue property:

if(myDate == DateTime.MinVal ue)
{
//myDate is empty
}

Or you can use the Nullable Types library:
http://nullabletypes.sourceforge.net/

Jan

"vince" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince

[Ron McNulty]

Sorry Vince, it is a value type, so it can't be null. I usually work around
this by assigning DateTime.MinVal ue as the "null" value.

Regards

Ron

"vince" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
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I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince

You cannot assign null value to datetime because it's
structure not a class. Stucture has to always has a value.

Jan.

-----Original Message-----
I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince
.

[Horatiu Ripa]

MSDN:
"Unlike reference types, it is not possible for a value type to contain the
null value."

DateTime is a value type.

--
Horatiu Ripa
Software Development Manager
Business Logic Systems LTD
21 Victor Babes str., 1st floor, 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Web: www.businesslogic.co.uk

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"vince" <an*******@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
news:07******** *************** *****@phx.gbl.. .

I want to assign a null value to a DateTime variable.How
do i do that?

Thanks
Vince