Specified Cast Is Not Valid?

Question

I have a table created in ASP.net and I want to populate the table with information from the database once the page has been loaded. I'm getting an error that the specified cast is not valid. What am I doing wrong? Heres my code

public string getData()
{
        string htmlStr = "";

        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connString);
        SqlCommand command = conn.CreateCommand();
        command.CommandText = "SELECT * from INFO";
        conn.Open();
        SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();

        while (reader.Read())
        {
            DateTime Date = reader.GetDateTime(0);
            DateTime Time = reader.GetDateTime(1);
            htmlStr += "<tr><td>" + Date + "</td><td>"  + Time + "</td></tr>";                  
        }

        conn.Close();

        return htmlStr;
}

<table style="width:100%">
                <caption>INFO</caption>
                <tr>
                    <td> Date </td>
                    <td> Time </td>
                </tr>
                    <%=getData()%>
                </table>

This is my error:

It is throwing the exception on this line from the above code:

DateTime Date = reader.GetDateTime(0);

Accepted Answer

From your comment:

this line DateTime Date = reader.GetDateTime(0); was throwing the exception

The first column is not a valid DateTime. Most likely, you have multiple columns in your table, and you're retrieving them all by running this query:

SELECT * from INFO

Replace it with a query that retrieves only the two columns you're interested in:

SELECT YOUR_DATE_COLUMN, YOUR_TIME_COLUMN from INFO

Then try reading the values again:

var Date = reader.GetDateTime(0);
var Time = reader.GetTimeSpan(1);  // equivalent to time(7) from your database

Or:

var Date = Convert.ToDateTime(reader["YOUR_DATE_COLUMN"]);
var Time = (TimeSpan)reader["YOUR_TIME_COLUMN"];

Answer 2

htmlStr is string then You need to Date and Time variables to string

while (reader.Read())
                {
                    DateTime Date = reader.GetDateTime(0);
                    DateTime Time = reader.GetDateTime(1);
                    htmlStr += "<tr><td>" + Date.ToString() + "</td><td>"  + 
                    Time.ToString() + "</td></tr>";                  
                }

Answer 3

Try this:

public void LoadData()
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=Stocks;Integrated Security=True;Pooling=False");
            SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter("Select * From [Stocks].[dbo].[product]", con);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            sda.Fill(dt);
            DataGridView1.Rows.Clear();

        foreach (DataRow item in dt.Rows)
        {
            int n = DataGridView1.Rows.Add();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[0].Value = item["ProductCode"].ToString();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[1].Value = item["Productname"].ToString();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[2].Value = item["qty"].ToString();                
            if ((bool)item["productstatus"])
            {
                DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = "Active";
            }
            else
            {
                DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = "Deactive";
            }

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