Casting a boolean to an integer returns -1 for true?

Question

I am working with some VB.NET code that seems to be casting a boolean value to an integer using CInt(myBoolean). The odd thing that is happening is that it retu

Answer 1

I have been having the same problem with MySQL as this has no Boolean type only a tinyint(1).

My solution was to write a converter function to ensure that the values are correct before inserting them into the database

        Public Function BoolToMySql(bVal As Boolean) As Integer
            Dim retVal As Integer
            If bVal = True Then
                retVal = 1
            Else
                retVal = 0
            End If
                 BoolToMySql = retVal
        End Function