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title: "AJAX Calendar Extender - binding null to text as selected date"  
description: "AJAX Calendar Extender - binding null to text as selected date"  
author: "marcel ethan"  
published: 2014-08-26  
updated: 2014-08-26  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2154/ajax-calendar-extender-binding-null-to-text-as-selected-date  
category: "asp.net"  
tags: ["asp.net", ".net", "c#", "Calendar Extender", "AJAX Calendar", "AJAX Calendar Extender"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# AJAX Calendar Extender - binding null to text as selected date

I have an [AJAX](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1541/check-availability-of-user-name-or-email-using-asp-dot-net-ajax-and-jquery) [Calendar Extender](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/2156/ajax-calendar-extender-binding-null-to-text-as-selected-date) inside an [ASP.NET](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/934/default-folders-available-inside-the-asp-dot-net-application-folder) [Repeater](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/197/asp-dot-net-repeater-control), which binds date [data](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13050/salesforce-aiming-to-dominate-predictive-analytics-with-data-science) from a [table](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43918/how-to-design-table-using-bootstrap) and allows [users](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2244/issue-preventing-users-from-accessing-facebook-s-social-networking-platforms-has-been-resolved) to change this. I have an issue however - if the date is [null](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33922/how-to-use-null-coalescing-operator-in-c-sharp), it returns an [error](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/88527/fixing-quickbooks-error-4120-reinstalling-vs-repairing) as it cannot bind null as a selected date. Are there any ways around this?

## Replies

### Reply by Sumit Kesarwani

Hi Marcel, \

Sort of worked around the issue for anyone else having problems - don't set the selected value in the ASP.NET code, set it when the row is bound in the code behind, so you bind only if it's not null.


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