don't display datetime min value in gridview

Question

given:

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public DateTime Birthdate { get; set; }
}
         


        

Answer 1

You can add an additional property to the Customer called BirthDateStr.

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public DateTime Birthdate { get; set; }
    public string BirthDateStr
    {
        get
        {
            if (Birthdate != DateTime.MinValue)
                return Birthdate.ToString();
            else
                return "";
        }
}

Obviously, you could do whatever formatting you'd like to do on the BirthDateStr in the getter to make it match your format.