ReadDate

Reads eight bytes from the stream and returns them as a Date type.

 Public Function ReadDate ( ) As Date

Return Values

Remarks

A Visual Basic Date type is represented as a Double type. However, this method reads in a 64 bit integer value as the Ticks of a CorDateTime type and converts it to Date.

If there is a need to read in a standard Date represeted as Double use the ReadDouble method.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
EndOfStreamException	The end of the stream is reached.
ObjectDisposedException	The stream is closed.
IOException	An I/O error occurs.
OverflowException	The sequence of eight bytes represented an invalid date.

See Also

Project CorLib Overview

Class BinaryReader Overview

ReadDouble