Yeha that will work but I'm trying to work with the designer in VS
2005. This is code that it's generated (well it's a simplification
of it anyway).

So there must be someway of making it work.

Thanks,

Joel


--- In [email protected], "Ryan Olshan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Instead use DateTime.TryParse.

> Function dostuff(ByVal aDate As String) As String
>     Dim isDate As Boolean
>     Dim parsedDate As DateTime

>     isDate = DateTime.TryParse(aDate, parsedDate)

>     If (isDate)
>         Return parsedDate.ToShortDateString()
>     Else
>         Return "Not a valid date"
> End Function

> HTH,
> Ryan

> Thank you,
> Ryan Olshan
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> Joel Dickson
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [AspNet2] Issue with Nullable Generic Structure
>
>
>
> I'm having an issue with passing values from text boxes through to
> the fill subroutines on my dataTableAdaptors.
>
> Basically this is a simple example that illustrates my issue
>
>
>
>      Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As
> System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
>
>          MsgBox((Nothing = "").ToString) 'Returns "True"
>          MsgBox(dostuff(Nothing)) 'Returns "not a date"
>          MsgBox(dostuff("")) 'Throws Exception - Conversion from
string
> "" to type 'Date' is not valid.
>
>       End Sub
>
>      Function dostuff(ByVal aDate As System.Nullable(Of Date)) As
String
>
>          If aDate.HasValue Then
>              Return CType(aDate, Date).ToShortDateString
>          Else
>              Return "not a date"
>          End If
>
>      End Function
>
> I'm unsure what to do here, I tried to create a function to
converts
> empty strings to Nothing and execute that before passing the
values of
> the text boxes to the fill functions but that produces the same
error.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joel
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