Question

I am having an application in .NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.

There are lot of instances in my application where user is asked for date. There I found an error that whenever a user enters a date less than 01/01/1753 it gives the following error:

SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and
12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM.

When, I drill down the error, I found that .NET supports dates from 01/01/0001 to 12/31/9999 whereas SQL Server 2005 supports date range of 01/01/1753 to 12/31/9999.

Now I need to have check in my application for min date.

But the problem is that I have to implement it at lot of instances, so finding some better solution.

Can anyone tell me the other way round to handle this date issue.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

Perhaps this might help you to get a valid SQL DateTime easy

public static class Extensions
{
    public static DateTime AsSqlValue(this DateTime date)
    {
        if(date < SqlDateTime.MinValue.Value)
            return SqlDateTime.MinValue.Value;
        return date;
    }
}

Usage

MyDateTime.AsSqlValue();