How to read date while debugging ?

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Hi all,

while debugging, when it is a date variable, how to easily /read/ what is the /humanized/ date rather than system like this :

Also may I know why, while as the picture suggested I have a date, but it is failed to check that my data (this date data) is not DateNull() ? Because I put a checking condition when /MyDate/ != DateNull() but it doesn't fall to the condition, something like this :

With that 2 condition, I'm confirmed the 1st one with word 'ended' with /Id/ has a value and the 2nd one is this Date spoken earlier. So based on this IF condition, I thought it should be fall to True condition instead.

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Martin Dráb 237,699 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Your picture does show that you have a date, but it's the date that F&O considers as "no date". It's exactly what dateNull() function returns:
static date dateNull() { return 01\01\1900; }

Therefore the condition yourDate != dateNull() indeed returns false.

Regarding the debugger, I don't have the same problem. The Value field shown a human-friendly text representation of the Date object:

What version of the Finance and Operations extension for Visual Studio do you have installed?

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Voltes 596 on at

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Hi Martin,

Yes, sorry, I misread the value, especially since the year already showing 1900.

But anyway it does makes me want to have the "nice" display date like in your picture.

If I'm not incorrectly search the Add-on version, this is it :

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Martin Dráb 237,699 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I have the same version of the extension, so that's not the reason. By the way, my VS is Enterprise 2019, 16.11.27.

You can report it as a bug to Microsoft. But first, I would test if it happens always or just in some situations. For example, I tested it with a local variable, while you might have a table field.

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Noted.

Mine is Professional, wonder if that is the cause.

Thanks

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