how to handle other types than string i member profiles

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Bo Kingo Damgaard 157 posts 456 karma points

Apr 20, 2011 @ 19:50
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How to handle other types than string i Member profiles
Hi

I've created a custom Profilebase, by following Aaron Powels excellent blogpost here http://www.aaron-powell.com/umbraco-members-profiles. I can't get to handle undefined datatypes other than strings. From Aaron's post I test for an undefined string by testing like this:
```
if (o == DBNull.Value)
{
   return string.Empty;
}
```
I can't seem to test for undefined Boolean or DateTime type this way. I have tried like this:
```
if (o == null)
{
   return false)
}
return ((int)0 == 1);
```
But it doesn't catch it, and then fails when casting to int

How do I test for undefined Boolean and DateTime?

/Bo Kingo
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Bo Kingo Damgaard 157 posts 456 karma points

Apr 20, 2011 @ 19:55

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And by the way, I run on MS SQL CE - could that be related? I've seen problems with CE in the forum before.

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Bo Kingo Damgaard 157 posts 456 karma points

Apr 21, 2011 @ 09:53

To answer my own question: It seems that the object returned is a string when undefined, so I fixed it by doing this:

                if (o is string)
                {
                    // Undefined boolean
                    return false;
                }
                return ((int)o == 1);

That seems to work and for DateTime too.

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