Porting CDate(long) from VB6 to C#

Question

I have been tasked with converting an old VB6 program to to C#. One function I have been having trouble porting over is the calculation of a birthdate from a filed that was read from a binary file:

.BirthDate = CDate((CLng(recPatient.birthDateByte2) * 256) +
                         (recPatient.birthDateByte1 + 366))

The only function I could find that is remotely similar is:

DateTime BirthDate = DateTime.ToDateTime((long)recPatient.birthDateByte2) * 256) 
                                       + (recPatient.birthDateByte1 + 366));

However ToDateTime(long) just returns an InvalidCastException.

Now I can build the string manually but I can not find any documentation anywhere on VB6's CDate(long).

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try to use

  DateTime.FromOADate((double)recPatient.birthDateByte2 * 256 
                     + recPatient.birthDateByte1 + 366)

instead.

Here is a small piece of documentation about CDate(long). It is not from MS and not about VB6, but since CDate is part of all VBA implementations I have seen so far, I suspect it won't make a big difference.