[RESOLVED] [VB 2003] DateTime cast type

[18experience]

Hi,
I am having a problem turning nothing into a datetime. Here is the line I am using:

Dim DtApproved As DateTime = IIf(Me.lblRtngApprovedDate.Text = "", DateTime.MinValue, CType(Me.lblRtngApprovedDate.Text, DateTime))

The date is stored as the text of a label (that's just the way it is, I didn't design this, I just gotta work with it). So, if the text = "", I want DtApproved to equal DateTime.MinValue, else I want it to convert the text in the label to a date.

The second part is working, but it is crashing when the label's text equals "". Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks to all