Comments on: Conversion from type ‘DBNull’ to type ‘String’ is not valid

By: Suresh

Suresh — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:26:25 +0000

Hi,
We can also check below
VB.NET
String nullString = If(IsDBNull(nullString)), String.Empty, nullString)

C#
String nullString = IsDBNull(nullString) ? String.Empty: nullString

shanwaj — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:04 +0000

Hi there,
Very nice example,i am struggling to convert dbnull to string.Every time i am getting error.I solved my problem with your example.

Thanks a lot

feliciafet — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:35:34 +0000

In it something is. Now all became clear, many thanks for the help in this question.

AndrewBoldman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:43:06 +0000

Hi, cool post. I have been wondering about this topic,so thanks for writing.