i have a date control on form (vb.net) and by default its value is current date. i want to make its value to null or empty so that no date is shown and user choose from the drop down date calendar.
View 9 RepliesThis must've have been asked before but I couldn't locate it. In a mixed code project (VB and C#) we were debugging some old Visual Basic code where a statement as follows could be found:
If Request.Params("xxx") <> "" Then
'do something
I considered this a bug as Request.Params could be null, in which case the statement would've become false which wasn't the idea. So I thought. I just found out, -- probably for the tenth time and I will keep forgetting -- that the following two statements are not equal, while Nothing in VB should be equal to null in C# (thought I):
if(String.Empty == null) // always false
If String.Empty = Nothing Then ' always true
Should I dismiss this as a typical Microsoft backward compatibility effort, or should I consider this a huge error in the VB.NET compiler? Does anybody know the Microsoftean opinion on this oddity?
I am getting the attached error when any cell in a row is empty. How to avoid this error and to accept the null values?
View 4 Replies I am getting product id value some times null and empty from databasehere how i check if valule null and empty
productid = IIf(IsDBNull(TempDT.Rows(0).Item("productid")) =
True,
"", TempDT.Rows(0).Item("productid"))
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I'm deserializing some XML from an old application into an object in my current application. The old XML often has empty elements (<SomeElement />) which are currently deserialized as empty strings (""). I agree that this is the most appropriate behaviour, but it is a minor irritant; I'd rather they were deserialized as Nothing or ideally ignored - the effect would be the same. Is there a means of ignoring these elements? Or can I have them deserialized as Nothing?
View 2 RepliesThe code below works fine as long as there are values within an XML node (For example the <CPU>Intel</CPU> node below) but it throws an Exception error when the node value is blank/null whatever as in the example node <Monitor> </Monitor>.t's ok if the node value is blank, I just want to check for it and not throw an exception error.This question uses the following XML snippet below: Note: The tag <Monitor></Monitor> has no value in it.
<PCSettings>
<SystemSettings>
<CPU>Intel</CPU>
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I have some application settings that I want to put some error checking in and the below code does not work.
If My.Settings.SmtpServer = ("") Then
MsgBox("SMTP cannot be blank!", vbExclamation, "SMTP App")
End If
I am finding this weird issue. When I do this > activities.Where(Function(a) (Not a.IsDeleted And a.ParentId = 100) It returns an in-memory query & when I try opening it up, it throws a object not set exception. This only happens when there were no items which satisfied the condition. Shouldn't it be returning an empty set? When there are items satisfying the condition, then it returns a list & works all good.
View 1 RepliesI key-in data from textbox to datagridvie..........the date data the format datatable is:
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I constantly find myself having to do code similar to the following.[code]Is there anyway to check for both on a single line? When i'm checking a condition for a great number of answers, I sometimes end up with conditionals 6-sets deep. If i check for null first, an error still pops up, even though VB shouldn't check since the first condition failed. i.e.[code]
View 8 RepliesHow can I change the following code to write to the database null instead of empty strings?
Public Sub SetChangeRequest(ByVal referenceLeaseID As Integer, _
ByVal referenceCustomerID As Integer, _
Optional ByVal custUnitNum As Object = Nothing, _
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I have the following code that checks if the value in a cell contains a nummeric value.
Private Sub dgvOrderRegel_CellValidating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellValidatingEventArgs) Handles dgvOrderRegel.CellValidating
Select Case e.ColumnIndex
Case 4 'Aantal
If Not IsNumeric(e.FormattedValue) Then
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I'm using FileHelper to generate object's property. Here is an example of one property:
<FieldOptional(), _
FieldTrim(TrimMode.Both)> _
<FieldNullValue(GetType(String), " ")> _
Public StoreNo As String
As you can see the StoreNo will either have a value or " ", one of the business policy is to check if the StoreNo is empty or nothing if the object's StoreNo is empty or null then the record will not create.
I though about creating an HasValue Function in the class to check the StoreNo and other properties in the object but I feel like it is a hack.
Public Function HasValue() As Boolean
Dim _HasValue As Boolean = True
If StringHelper.IsNullOrBlank(Me.StoreNo) Then
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I don't think this approach is an ideal solution. what if the StoreNo is remove or change to something else. What's the best approach to check object's property?
I have a form and stored procedure that inserts the data from the form. It works fine except that if a field isn't filled in it doesn't insert a NULL into SQL it inserts "".
I've tried a few different ways but none seem to insert NULL, the one below still inserts "", can anyone point me in the right direction?
Here is the required part of the code, if you require more just let me know.
Dim rdr As SqlDataReader
Dim cmdInsert As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand()
cmdInsert.CommandText = "spPersonalDetailsInsert"
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So if I enter nothing into address1 field it should write NULL to screen but it always writes NOT NULL. What does an empty form field equal? in classic ASP it was always "".
I have a couple of textfields in a Windows form. One of these textfields is allowed to be NULL. When I enter a value for every field, it is all inserted, no problem. When I leave the field (txtGewicht) blank, I can't seem to be able to insert NULL in Access Database.
If Double.TryParse(txtGewicht.Text, 0) Then
klant.Gewicht = Double.Parse(txtGewicht.Text)
Else
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This is what I get:
"Cannot set column 'Gewicht' to NULL, please use DBNull instead"
So I changed 'Nothing' to DBNull.value, but it then tells me that System.DBNull cannot be converted to type Double.
I have a large one dimensional array that is called ArrayHold which is populated at runtime. I run a loop to scan through the array to find out which elements need to be removed based on a few parameters. This all works great, now I am left with two arrays. The original one and a new one which contains the locations of the elements to be removed.
Original Array: ("A")("B")("C")("D")("E")("F")("G")("H")
Second Array with index/count of elements that needs to be removed: ("0")("3")("5")("7")
End result should be preferably not in a new array but a "ReDim" of the original array:("B")("C")("E")("G")
What would be the simplest way to achieve this? I could run a loop to make all the elements that need to be removed "0" or ""? Would there be an easy way of resizing and array by dropping/removing all the white space or empty elements?
I need to sort a DataTable or DataGridView by a column that is a string value, but with null/empty values at the BOTTOM when sorting ASCENDING. The DataTable is NOT populated by a SQL statement, so no order by. If I do
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I have a property called ReplacementTo and I set a value to it based on the selecteditem from the combobox, like this:
classEquipmentItem.ReplacementTo = cmbReplcmnt.SelectedItem.ToString
Now I can't use cmbReplcmnt.Text because what I actually need is the value of that SelectedItem
So problem is, if the user leaves the combobox as blank, it throws a null exception.I decided to use the IIf function then:classEquipmentItem.ReplacementTo = IIf(IsNothing(cmbReplcmnt.SelectedItem.ToString), classEquipmentItem.ReplacementTo = "", cmbReplcmnt.SelectedItem.ToString)
Unfortunately I still get the error I tried using a Try-Catch for it and it worked, but I don't want to rely on the Try-Catch, so I was wondering is there a another way to work this through?
I have a stored procedure (SQL Server Express) that returns a count of records:
SELECT COUNT(AdminUserID) AS CountEm
FROM Licenses
WHERE (AdminUserID = @AdminUserID);
Table "Licenses" has a field "CompanyID" which is a uniqueidentifier.
I need to add a clause to the WHERE to exclude records from the count where "CompanyID" is null/empty.
In VB code I'd do this with "If Not (TheCompanyID.Equals(Guid.Empty)) Then"
How would I do this in a stored procedure?
I need to sort a DataTable or DataGridView by a column that is a string value, but with null/empty values at the BOTTOM when sorting ASCENDING.The DataTable is NOT populated by a SQL statement, so no order by.If I doDataGridView1.Sort(New RowComparer(System.ComponentModel.ListSortDirection.Ascending))then it throws an exception, saying that the DataGridView is DataBound, which is correct, but doesn't help me, and I want to keep it databound.
View 2 RepliesI was wondering what is the best way to make sure a date is 'empty' so that, if it hasn't been set by the user, that situation is testable.
I've checked and found one way of approaching the issue:
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Is the second one more of a stop-gap measure? Is the first way the sanctioned way (which hopefully doesn't entail a lot of complication with testing/setting the values of the date)?
I've got a new instance of an object in a Linq DBML, but don't know of the test if the a date field is empty.I have tried:
If d Is Nothing OrElse IsDBNull(d) OrElse d <= Date.MinValue Then
TextValue = "nada"
Else
TextValue = FormatDateTime(d)
End If
But the result is "12:00:00 am"
edit: Changed variable name the d
edit: note that the SQL field is nullable
I am retrieving some data from the db and using an sqldatareader to read the data. I have a date column in the table which i am retrieving in the following mannervb Dim d as DateIf Not reader.IsDBNull(10) Then d = reader.GetDateTime(10) Else d = ???
View 5 RepliesI'm trying to do some validation testing in VB.NET. If Entity.WeekEndDate.ToString = String.Empty Then ErrorList.Add(New cValidationError("id", "Incorrect Week End Date"))
Where WeekEndDate is of type Date. When I originally build the object, how can I insert a value into WeekEndDate that will generate an empty string(ie. "") when converted from a Date to a String?
I have a report parameter which looks like this: 01.01.2009 00:00:00.Its a date (as string), as you might have guessed :). The problem is, this param can be an empty string as well. So I tried those expressions:
=IIf(IsDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), CDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), "")
=IIf(Len(Parameters!DateTo.Value) > 0, CDate(Parameters!DateTo.Value), "")
Both dont work and the value for the textfield where I print the expressions result is always #Error. As soon as I remove the CDate stuff, it works, but I have to use it. IS there another way to achieve that? What I want is to display nothing if its not a date or the date (format dd.mm.yyyy) if its a date.
I'm making a data application and using the data adapters, I created a query in the designer:
EmpActivities_TableAdapter.InsertQuery(IdTextBox.Text, ActivityComboBox.Text, DescriptionTextBox.Text, Cdate(adddate.text))
The question is how can I set the adddate to null or nothing and save it? I'm using SQL server for the data.
I am trying to deserialize an Xml file content into a specific object. Everything runs fine but when I include empty tag of type date or time in my xml(having xsd that describes my xml structure) the deserialization fails. What can I do to make deserialization working when empty date tags are appear?
View 1 RepliesHow can i remove this in my crystal report . this value is showing if my date field in null . "1/1/1900 12:00:00 AM". I don't want to show thin is my report.I have two dates , case open date and case close date . if the case is not closed its showing this value so i want to remove this.I am using sqlsever.
View 3 RepliesThis video shows how to add validation for a textbox:[URL]..what about date ? I can't make it work for date.
View 2 RepliesI am working with calendar inside GridView using VB. I have some NULL date on the DDBB. I can fix the problem using EVAL, but when I try to save the date from the calendar, I got an error telling me that their is no @variable declared.[code]Everything is fine but I got: Must declare the scalar variable "@tDate" trying to save.This is beacuse I'm not using Bind, but with BIND I cannot run checkDate.
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