Nullable type issue with ?: Conditional Operator

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The compiler is telling you that it doesn’t know how convert null into a DateTime.

The solution is simple:

DateTime? foo;
foo = true ? (DateTime?)null : new DateTime(0);

Note that Nullable<DateTime> can be written DateTime? which will save you a bunch of typing.

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