dotnet tries to preformat odbc data datetime but fails

[Roland Wolters]

Hi,
I am reading data from a unix odbc datasource in a c# program. Reading the
data as works fine, but one field, contains a date-time format that .net
does not understand.

The query would be: "Select birthdate from <tabel> where bla bla"

We use an odbc command object, and an odbcdatareader.

When I simple execute string result=(string) reader[0]; The .net code tries
to resolve it as a datetime. An error results.

When I try to read the data as bytearray (byte[]) I get the same error.

How can I prevent .net trying to render the data so I can parse it myself?
Greetings,

Roland

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[joris.geysens]

Change your query to return the datetime as a string , for example in
Oracle using TO_CHAR.

[Roland Wolters]

jo***********@g mail.com wrote in news:1127459604 .744496.288000
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Change your query to return the datetime as a string , for example in
Oracle using TO_CHAR.

Yes, that would be a solution. How ever this is the problem: the database
belongs to a specialized morgage/crm application. The customer wants to
expose some data to the web. The database itself is inexcessible, but there
is a read-only odbc driver, but it's sql syntax is very poor. It was home-
build by de application builder. No luxory there!

Somehow I must be able to access the data in the reader as raw data.
Roland

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[Christof Nordiek]

Did you try following?:
DateTime result = (DateTime)reade r[0];

Or try: reader[0].GetType();
Then you at least know wich type you get.

[joris.geysens]

Did you try reader.GetStrin g(0) ?