I'm mostly using LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework recently.
As you know, the datetime database fields are returned as Nullables of type DateTime, if they allow NULL values and I found myself adding a lot of additional data class properties like:
public string ModifiedString {
get {
return this.ModifiedOn.HasValue
? this.ModifiedOn.Value.ToString("dd MMM yyyy") : "";
}
}
So, I decided to wrap that an a nice Extension Method, make it once, and then just use it.
And here is what I came up with:
namespace System {
/// <summary>
///
/// </summary>
public static class XtsDate {
#region Static Fields /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// <summary>
/// Gets the date format.
/// </summary>
/// <value>The date format.</value>
public static string DateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy";
#endregion
#region Static Methods ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// <summary>
/// Toes the site string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="date">The date.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string ToSiteString(this DateTime date) {
return date.ToString(DateFormat);
}
/// <summary>
/// Toes the site string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="date">The date.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string ToSiteString(this DateTime? date) {
return date.HasValue ? date.Value.ToString(DateFormat) : "";
}
#endregion
}
}
Now, when I need some DateTime field as string I just can use:
return this.ModifiedOn.ToSiteString();
Hope this helps anyone ...
Regards
Posted
01-12-2009 14:12
by
velio