C# – Retrieving a DateTime value from a DataRow (C#)

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How can I get DateTime value in C# from row, the current code is giving me error
any help is appreciated, the data is coming in from progress database:

foreach (DataRow r in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
{
    string prodCode = r["PRD-CDE"].ToString();
    statCode = r["STAT"].ToString();
    DateTime firstIssueDate = (DateTime)(r["FISS"]); 
    DateTime endIssueDate = (DateTime)(r["EISS"]);
    if(endIssueDate > DateTime.Now)
    { /*do some thing...*/}
    else {/*user invalid...*/}
}

there are two ways used in getting date convert and pars, thank you all for the help

Final working Code snippet: 

foreach (DataRow r in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
            {
                string prodCode = r["PRD-CDE"].ToString(),statCode = r["STAT"].ToString();
               // r.<DateTime?>("FISS");
                if (r["FISS"] != DBNull.Value)
                {
                    DateTime firstIssueDate = Convert.ToDateTime(r["FISS"]);
                    if (r["EISS"] != DBNull.Value)
                    {
                        DateTime endIssueDate = DateTime.Parse(r["EISS"].ToString());
                        if (endIssueDate > DateTime.Now)
                        {

Best Answer

This is just a guess but if the corresponding type in the database is DateTime, could you check if the column is nullable?

If so you may want to do a check r["column"] == DBNull.Value and then pass it to a nullable DateTime? Field.

Or even easier:

row.Field<DateTime?>("column")

If it isn't then yeah, Convert.ToDateTime() or something else should do it.

EDIT:

I see your final code there but is there any chance you want to do this: 

DateTime? firstIssueDate = r.Field<DateTime?>("fiss"); 
DateTime? endIssueDate = r.Field<DateTime?>("eiss"); 

if (firstIssueDate.HasValue && endIssueDate.HasValue) 
{ 
    firstIssueDate.Value // blah blah 
    endIssueDate.Value // blah blah 
}
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