That works, thank you very much. Scratch that, I had made it a bound column and forgot to change it back. When I change it back to a template field it still doesn't work. :( I have found some stuff that seems helpful (like this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/584570/why-does-my-repeater-keep-crashing-on-evalnull-values[^]) but still can't get this to work with my DateTime field. One more edit: Okay I figured it out. I had some code in my RowDataBound event that was formatting the dates and I had to modify it in the case of an empty string. :doh: Thank you again for the help. modified on Friday, July 10, 2009 1:02 PM

:doh: Yes that was it, thanks so much.

Yes, a database. Of course that database may be XML... :-D I do a similar thing, with a Windows Service periodically looking for new files to add to the index.