vb.net Post Filter - vb.net

I am currently building a string and require a date to be filtered.
Example :
sb.Append("&NextPayDate=" & app.IncomeNext.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"))
this collects a date from a form they fill in and then it gets posted out.
The problem is the area that recieves this post does not allow weekends, so the date cannot be on a weekend.
This is how i filter a telephone number and it works great
If app.LandPhone.Length = 10 Or app.WorkPhone.Length = 10 Then
sb.Append("Only 11-digit phones supported;")
How do i filter the date so it wont accept weekend dates.
Thanks

Firstly you need to get/set the type of calendar you use importing:
Imports System.Globalization
Then check if app.IncomeNext includes that information already or use this:
Dim myCal As Calendar = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.Calendar
If (myCal.GetDayOfWeek(app.IncomeNext).equals("Saturday") or myCal.GetDayOfWeek(app.IncomeNext).equals("Sunday"))
Then
sb.Append("No weekends supported;")
End If
According the configuration of app.IncomeNext you'll probably need to insert the type of calendar.

Thanks Novemberland, that worked great , just forget the End IF
Here is the full solution.
Imports System.Globalization
Friend Overrides Function Filter() As String
Dim sb As New StringBuilder()
If (myCal.GetDayOfWeek(app.IncomeNext).equals("Saturday") or myCal.GetDayOfWeek(app.IncomeNext).equals("Sunday"))
Then
sb.Append("No weekends supported;")
End If
Return sb.ToString()
End Function

If app.IncomeNext.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Saturday Or
app.IncomeNext.DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek.Sunday Then

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Insert exceptions into Resource Calendar

I got this code below which populates the Standard (Base) calendar with public holidays. Can anyone point my in the right direct to do the same onto a resource calendar.
Example resource calendar name = "Joe Bloggs"
here is the code I've got working for the base calendar.
Sub Create_New_Exceptions()
Dim e As Exception
Dim cal As Calendar
Dim CalName As String
CalName = ActiveProject.Calendar.Name
ActiveProject.BaseCalendars(CalName).Exceptions.Add Type:=1, Start:="1/01/2020", Finish:="1/01/2020", Name:="New 's Day"
'copy above to insert more public holidays
End Sub
Any help will be appreciated.
Use the Calendar property of the Resource to add calendar exceptions:
ActiveProject.Resources("Joe Bloggs").Calendar.Exceptions.Add Type:=1, Start:="1/01/2020", Finish:="1/01/2020", Name:="New 's Day"

Write to Date Time Picker

Today, I want to write day, month, and year to a datetimepicker in Visual Studio.
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#geboortedag", dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Day)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#geboortemaand", dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Month)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#geboortejaar", dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Year)
These work. I save day, month and year separately to three rows in my database.
However, when I want to call these values, I can't even run the thing without getting the following:
BC30068 Visual Basic AND VB.NET Expression is a value and therefore cannot be the target of an assignment.
Here's what I tried.
dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Day = row("geboortedag").ToString
dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Month = row("geboortemaand").ToString
dtp_geboortedatum.Value.Year = row("geboortejaar").ToString
All I want is to put the day, month and year I have in separate cells into the date time picker when I open a record.
PS I also tried like the help page for the error says to write to a variable first but that does nothing to help. Perhaps I did it wrong but, I can't get it to work.
Also, I've been linked to this article but this does not fix the issue. I keep getting errors that integers are strings and cannot be converted to integers, but they're integers! They're integers when they start, they're integers when they're saved into a row for integers that saves integers, they're integers when they come out. Why aren't they integers in the end when nothing special happens to them but being inputted, saved, and called?
(Posted on behalf of the question author).
None of the material I provided in the question is relevant. Turns out I had to use dt.clear(). I'm going to be honest, I don't know how this is the thing that went wrong.
I fixed the rest with cdate() and Option Strict On.
its a very long time since touched VB.NET, but I think what you need to do is pass a DateTime type to the date picker to set its value as below;
dtp_geboortedatum.Value = New DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, DateTime.Now.Day)
So you will need to pass your year, month and day as integers
Just substitute your row integer values for the literals I used.
Private Sub SetDate()
Dim myDay As Integer = 27
Dim myMonth As Integer = 4
Dim myYear As Integer = 2018
DateTimePicker1.Value = New DateTime(myYear, myMonth, myDay)
End Sub

VB.Net and handling dates within Grid Controls - better way?

While I have my app running, I question the methodology, and wondering if there’s a “better way”…
Overall design is to allow editing 200-300 records from a gridview (phase1) using VB.Net. The database itself is on SQL Server. There are a number of columns a user will enter into an “application”, and there are several columns that will be edited/maintained by “office users”, if you will. There are several dates involved in this ongoing maintenance, and that’s where the first of my questions revolves.
I have found “solutions” on the internet that got the code working, but am questioning them…
Problem #1 I ran into – dates are NULL in the database, and in trying to read them in using a SqlDataReader led to errors (cannot assign NULL to a Date object). Ok, that led into using a ternary operator to use “IsDBNull”, and either assign the value read from the DB, or to assign DateTime.MinValue. Problem “solved”…
Problem #2 – using the above method now shows dates that are the minimum VB date value – showing actual dates in the fields the user is to edit – definitely not “user friendly”, nor what I want. The only solution to this issue was:
Convert dates from Date or DateTime objects into String objects. This would then allow me to be able to assign an empty string to the gridview in the case where the date was originally NULL in the DB, which had to be transformed into DateTime.MinValue (which could be tested), and then another ternary operator to assign either “ToString” conversion, or an empty string to the gridview field.
Ok – editing is now accomplished. I added some “ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript” commands to allow testing the validity of the dates the user enters – all is well.
Problem #3 (or 4) – I now need to update the database with the data the user entered – PRESERVING THE EMPTY DATE STRINGS – and update the database (using parameters…) with NULLs back in those date columns. However, again – the date is a string, and is empty, so I had to assign to a “MinValue”, first, then another ternary operator to test each date against “MinValue”, and either assign the date, or a DBNull.Value…
Yes, I guess I could have come up with a number of different update strings (including dates in some, excluding in others), depending on whether or not a string/date was empty or not... But that will only lead to future bugs, so, I guess I’ll be keeping a series of ternary operators.
So, the code for beginning the edit process looks something like:
While sdr.Read
Dim _date1 As Date = If(IsDBNull(sdr("date1")), DateTime.MinValue, sdr("date1"))
.
.
.
‘ Now add them to a List of my Class:
appsList.Add(New AppClass(… _
If(_date1 = DateTime.MinValue, " ", _date1.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy")), _
… )
Now to get the data back from the gridview to update the database:
Dim _date1 As Date
' see if we can convert the various dates...
Try
' see if empty…
If ((CType((row.Cells(19).Controls(0)), TextBox)).Text).Length < 2 Then
_date1 = DateTime.MinValue
Else
_date1 = DateTime.Parse((CType((row.Cells(19).Controls(0)), TextBox)).Text)
End If
Catch ex As Exception
ErrFlag = True
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(Me, Page.GetType, "Script", "alert(‘Date1 Date is not valid - enter as MM/DD/YYYY');", True)
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.
.
.
Dim sql As String = "UPDATE [foo_bar].[dbo].[bar_foo] set date1=#Date1, …….)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#Date1", If(_date1 = DateTime.MinValue, DBNull.Value, _date1))
Honestly, all this conversion back and forth seems like it’s going to lead to bugs or errors at some point.
So – is this the “best” method for handling this? There isn’t a cleaner way?
If your using winforms then you can handle the Format and parse of the databindings. I haven't tried it on a Gridviewtextbox but worst case you can use a custom cell template and a textbox with format and parse handlers. The code would be something like this:
mybinding = New Binding("text", DataSet1, "table1.datefield")
Me.DataGridTextBoxColumn1.TextBox.DataBindings.Add(mybinding)
AddHandler mybinding.Parse, AddressOf StringToDateTime
AddHandler mybinding.Format, AddressOf formatdate
Private Sub StringToDateTime(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal cevent As ConvertEventArgs)
If cevent.Value.GetType().Equals(GetType(String)) And _
cevent.DesiredType Is GetType(DateTime) Then
If cevent.Value <> "" Then
' Make sure matches format in format funtion
cevent.Value = DateTime.Parse(String.Format(cevent.Value, "MMM d, yy"))
Else
cevent.Value = DBNull.Value
End If
'cevent.Value = DateTime.Parse(String.Format(cevent.Value, "MMM d yyyy")
End If
End Sub
Public Sub formatdate(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ConvertEventArgs)
If e.Value.GetType().Equals(GetType(DateTime)) And e.DesiredType Is GetType(String) Then
' Hard-coded or user-specified
' Make sure matches format in parse funtion
e.Value = Format(e.Value, "d")
End If
End Sub

Making a table column Date or String based on type

I'm making an SSRS Report for my accounting team and I'm hitting a wall on their custom fields requirements.
I created a custom code function for this:
Public Function DateOrString(ByVal s As String) As String
Try
Dim dt = CDate(s)
Return dt.ToString("d")
Catch
Return s
End Try
End Function
Which when I ran that in VS it works like it should but when I used it in my SSRS report like so:
=Code.DateOrString(Fields!customuserfield1.Value)
works, but the date field is not converting at all
I need a string that equals "May 23 2011 12:00AM" to convert to "05/23/2011"
Not sure what's the disconnect is, hoping someone can tell me.
After a lot of desk to head beating I got a working solution.
in the stored procedure I had to do some data cleaning so that my custom code would properly work, once I did that it worked like it should have.

Remove dot´s from date

I made a program that generates a daily index code.
It gets created from
Employer (everyone has a number from 0-9)
Date of serial code requested
Everything is working fine, but I wannt to remove the dots from the date
I tried things like
date.Text = date.Text.Replace(".""", """")
or
Dim clean as String
clean = myString.Replace(".", "")
But nothing happens
May be I just didnt unterstand the using... If yes, so please help me to find a alternative.
Ok i will try to explain better.
As I lunch it a textbox gets the date of today, the textbox is called date
Ive got a combobox, from there you select the employer. Every employer has a number. For example Andreas is Number 1.
I wannt to do something like:
if combobox1.text = "Andreas" then
dailyCode.text = "1" & date.text
end if
My problem is that the date is written with dots, the daily code should not have dots.
Sorry for my bad English
In your questions Details are still incomplete.still assuming that the date(still i am confused how are you using reserved keyword) is declared as date type itself,consider formatting it with Format function itself.
Try using
Dim s As String = Format(date, "ddMMMyyyy")
hope that helps.