Handling a DateTime DBNull

Question

I have seen many, many versions of this on SO, but none of them seem to quite work for my needs.

My data comes from a vendor database that allows null for DateTime

Answer 1

Use IsDBNull()

System.Convert.IsDBNull(value);

or if you have a SqlDataReader

reader.IsDBNull(ordinal);

And make your DateTime properties to be nullable (DateTime?) and set null in case of DBNull. Field() will automatically do this.