Hi,
I have a class with several properties, one of which is of the DateTime
datatype. However, this property will not always have a value, and I need to
check later whether it has a value or not.
When I create a new instance of the class, this property acquires a default
value of {1/1/1}, which I don't want at all, as that is a perfectly valid
date.
Is there any way to cause a DateTime datatype to have no value at all, which
I can check later?
Or is the answer not to use a DataTime datatype and use a generic object
datatype instead?
Any assistance gratefully received.
Mark 11 16413
Dates are value types, not reference types, so they can not be null, they
hold always a value. Could you use DateTime.MinVal ue as a special value to
denote no value?
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"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> escribió en el mensaje
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Hi,
I have a class with several properties, one of which is of the DateTime datatype. However, this property will not always have a value, and I need to check later whether it has a value or not.
When I create a new instance of the class, this property acquires a default value of {1/1/1}, which I don't want at all, as that is a perfectly valid date.
Is there any way to cause a DateTime datatype to have no value at all, which I can check later?
Or is the answer not to use a DataTime datatype and use a generic object datatype instead?
Any assistance gratefully received.
Mark
Mark,
In .NET 2.0, you would use the Nullable<T>, with the type parameter T
equal to DateTime. This will produce a structure which has a HasValue
property which is true if there is a value, false if it is null.
If you are using a version of .NET before 2.0, then you could use the
SqlDateTime, which supports null semantics.
Hope this helps.
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"Mark Rae" <ma**@mark-N-O-S-P-A-M-rae.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ev******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... Hi,
I have a class with several properties, one of which is of the DateTime datatype. However, this property will not always have a value, and I need to check later whether it has a value or not.
When I create a new instance of the class, this property acquires a default value of {1/1/1}, which I don't want at all, as that is a perfectly valid date.
Is there any way to cause a DateTime datatype to have no value at all, which I can check later?
Or is the answer not to use a DataTime datatype and use a generic object datatype instead?
Any assistance gratefully received.
Mark
"Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]" <ca*****@NOSPAM sogecable.com> wrote in
message news:OK******** ******@tk2msftn gp13.phx.gbl... Could you use DateTime.MinVal ue as a special value to denote no value?
Possibly - thanks for the answer.
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:uM******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P15.phx.gbl... In .NET 2.0, you would use the Nullable<T>, with the type parameter T equal to DateTime. This will produce a structure which has a HasValue property which is true if there is a value, false if it is null.
Still using v1.1
If you are using a version of .NET before 2.0, then you could use the SqlDateTime, which supports null semantics.
I'll try that - thanks.
You could also write your own class containing a DateTime that would then be
nullable. This might be easier than having to reference System.Data to use
SqlDateTime.
class MyDateTime
{
public MyDateTime(Date Time dt) { this._dt = dt; }
private DateTime _dt;
public DateTime Value { get { return this._dt; } }
};
"Mark Rae" wrote: "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in message news:uM******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P15.phx.gbl...
In .NET 2.0, you would use the Nullable<T>, with the type parameter T equal to DateTime. This will produce a structure which has a HasValue property which is true if there is a value, false if it is null.
Still using v1.1
If you are using a version of .NET before 2.0, then you could use the SqlDateTime, which supports null semantics.
I'll try that - thanks.
"KH" <KH@discussions .microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FC******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com... You could also write your own class containing a DateTime that would then be nullable. This might be easier than having to reference System.Data to use SqlDateTime.
class MyDateTime { public MyDateTime(Date Time dt) { this._dt = dt; }
private DateTime _dt;
public DateTime Value { get { return this._dt; } } };
Hmm - that looks rather good! Thanks very much :-)
Just for completeness, C# also allows declaring a nullable type like
this:
int? NullableInteger ;
The ? denotes a nullable type.
VB does not have a similar syntax.
"Chris Dunaway" <du******@gmail .com> wrote in message
news:11******** *************@g 44g2000cwa.goog legroups.com... Just for completeness, C# also allows declaring a nullable type like this:
int? NullableInteger ;
The ? denotes a nullable type.
VB does not have a similar syntax.
Interesting - could I apply that here...?
public class CSecurityClassn
{
private DateTime pMaturityDate;
public DateTime MaturityDate
{
get {return pMaturityDate;}
set {pMaturityDate = value;}
}
}
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