[Solved] Avoiding "null" on nullable columns

[Joao Cardoso]

Hi there,

My question today is how to avoid the "null" text on columns that are nullable?

Long story short I have a model that looks like this:

Public Class PriProcesso

Property Produto As String

Property NumeroProcesso As Long

Property DataAbertura As DateTime?

End Class

DataAbertura can assume "nothing" as a value.

When I bind it as a column to the grid like this:

gridBuilder.Columns(Sub(c) c.Bound(Function(b) b.DataAbertura).Format("{0:yyyy-MM-dd}").Width(80).Title("Aberto em"))

It all works great.... when the field has a value. When its "nothing", the grid shows "null" as the column value.

Is there a way to avoid this? Nullable properties should not come up as "null" when it does not have a value...it  should com up empty instead as this is what we intent to show users 90% of the time.

Cheers

Joao Cardoso

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Joao Cardoso,

Which version are you using? This should not be a problem with the current official release 2010.1.518.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
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[Joao Cardoso]

That explains it... I have version 2010.1.309. Thats the version available to download as far as I can see. Any plan on when will the new version will be available on the free download page?

Cheers

Joao Cardoso

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Joao Cardoso,

Service packs are available only to users with commercial license. Occasionally we upload the service pack in a forum thread.

All the best,
Atanas Korchev
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[Tiago]

Hi, I'm opening this thread again because this was the closest i could find on my problem.

what appens is that when i use format on a column tha comes from a linked table that has the value null i get the error

otherwise,if its from the main table, it works fine

== null -> WORKS
col.Bound(p => p.EndDate).Format(

 

"{0:d}");

== null ERROR - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
col.Bound(p => p.LoanRevisions.SingleOrDefault(r => r.EndDate == null).EndDate).Format("{0:d}"

);


just another thing, this works fine too,obviosly without the correct format:
col.Bound(p => p.LoanRevisions.SingleOrDefault(r => r.EndDate == null).EndDate);


thanks in advance...