I have a number of different object types that I would like to pass into a function. All my objects are created from classes with a .Description property. Is it possible to determine the type of object for use as the 2nd parameter in a CType call at runtime? e.g. Debug.Print CType(MyObject, TypeOf(MyObject)).Description (I have Option Strict On) I get errors when I do this.
View 4 Replieswhat if the session object is not present
what will it return if CType(Session("pid"), String) is not present
The code below works for the class that I hard coded "XCCustomers" in my RetrieveIDandName method where I use CType. However, I would like to be able to pass in various classes and property names to get the integer and string LIST returned. For example, in my code below, I would like to also pass in "XCEmployees" to my RetrieveIDandName method. I feel so close... I was hoping someone knew how to use CType where I can pass in the class name as a string variable.
Note, all the other examples I have seen and tried fail because we are using Option Strict On which disallows late binding. That is why I need to use CType.I also studied the "Activator.CreateInstance" code examples to try to get the class reference instance by string name but I was unable to get CType to work with that.When I use obj.GetType.Name or obj.GetType.FullName in place of the "XCCustomers" in CType(obj, XCCustomers)(i)I get the error "Type 'obj.GetType.Name' is not defined" or "Type 'obj.GetType.FullName' is not defined"
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Imports DataLaasXC.Business
Imports DataLaasXC.Utilities
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have a look at this code Dim colors() As KnownColor = CType(System.Enum.GetValues(GetType(KnownColor)), KnownColor()) Since CType is a function that returns DataType ,But here as in the code it seems that CType() is returning array having values that is assigned to color() array. How this is happening?
View 3 RepliesIn vb.net, I got an Enum defined As Integer:
Enum enUtilityTypeDetailStudentEntryWorkflow As Integer
enUTDSEW_Default = 379
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This works but it adds a lot of noise to the code and it seems like the Enum is already defined as an Integer, making me think, why do I have to assign it again?
I cant understand why this does not work! Hope for your intelligent answers ;)
With
CType(Controls(PicsGame(GameCount)),
PictureBox)
BorderStyle =
BorderStyle.None
Is it possible to change a datarowview object to an integer?
View 3 Repliesdim testpanel as new panel
dim test as CType(testpanel, Control))
msgbox(typename(test)) ' it gives me "panel"
'i dun get it, how can typename of test give me Panel when i explicitly call it to be converted to a Control type?
I am an experienced C/C++/C# programmer who has just gotten into VB.NET. I generally use CType (and CInt, CBool, CStr) for casts because it is less characters and was the first way of casting which I was exposed to, but I am aware of DirectCast and TryCast as well. Simply, are there any differences (effect of cast, performance, etc.) between DirectCast and CType? I understand the idea of TryCast.
View 2 RepliesI turned option strict on, wich gave me some errors. The errors are quite easy to fix, but it seems like there are several ways of doing things. [code] 'previoustime' is declared as a TimeSpan, and the column "sluttid" is defined as a TimeSpan-column.Now, as far as I know, there are two ways of solving this; using CType and using DirectCast, like this: [code]
View 4 RepliesAssume that I have this declaration (according to MSDN):
Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, _
ByVal wMsg As UInteger, _
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And this is how I use it:
PostMessage(hWnd, 516, CType(2, UIntPtr), CType(0, UIntPtr))
Option Strict is turned On. So the questions are:
1. Do I need to use UIntPtr in declaration or it will be better to use UInteger?
2. Do I need to use CType function in these cases or there is a better way for this or I need to avoid declaring pointers?
does your IDE ever get amnesia?in the line before it is clearly defined.in the following line it is not.Maybe it's a faulty translation from Tangible Software.the C example i'm looking at:
IAnimatedMeshSceneNode* newNode = (IAnimatedMeshSceneNode*) oldNode->clone();
translated as:
Dim newNode As IAnimatedMeshSceneNode = CType(oldNode.clone(), IAnimatedMeshSceneNode)
had to make a dummy for it because i can't use arrays with CType.
The below is a snippet from VB that I am porting to a C# rewrite. My question is what is receipt_date after the assignment? Is it still an object or is it a string?
Dim receipt_date As Object
receipt_date = CType(dr.Item("RECTDT"), String)
Would this be the correct C# counterpart?
object receipt_date;
receipt_date = dr["RECTDT"].ToString();
After both of these execute would the VB version, receipt_date be equal to the C# version?
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What happens when a user wants to alocate "" as Item(DurationColumn) to integer? I get an exception. clean solution to avoid this and set 0 for ""?
I have this class: Public Class Foo
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In the f = "Bar" assignment I loose the previous X and Y values previously assigned. There's a way to overload the operator to assign to the "Value" member instead of creating a new Foo class? Or a way to obtain the target of the assignment to copy the values??
I am receiving the following error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
Line 21: 'Determine the maximum pictureID for this user
Line 22: Dim results As DataView = CType(maxPictureIDDataSource.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), DataView)
Line 23: Dim pictureIDJustAdded As Integer = CType(results(0)(0), Integer)
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i've got a problem here whereby my ctype doesn't work.firstly, to replicate my case briefly, i've created an extension of control class
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father.getheight 'compiler writes: Panel class doesn't support getheight, but I've already converted it to a Control with CType!end sub of course if i dim father as Control it works perfectly, but in my case father may be other objects as well that aren't controls so I had to dim father as a general object, is there a fix so i could properly convert father into a Control object?
I have a class that overrides Ctype operator to have conversion from and to String :
Public Class TotoToString
Property value As String
Public Sub New(ByVal V As String)
Me.value = V
End Sub
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I need to programmaticlly check one RadioButton1 in GroupBox1 in my Form.The name of RadioButton and his parent GroupBox is received from global variable 'names'.How to change GrpBx1 to names(0)?
VB.Net
Dim names as String() 'GrpBx1,RadioButton1
'WORKING but not exactly what I wanna while it's fixed to only one GroupBox:
CType(Me.GrpBx1.Controls(names(1)), RadioButton).Checked = True
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Public Enum Fruit
Red_Apple = 1
Oranges
Ripe_Banana
End Enum
Private Sub InitCombosRegular()
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Why does the Ctype work and the Directcast does not with the same syntax? Yet if I cast the selectedValue to an int before I DirectCast, then it works
Does DirectCast, ctype, etc., are common function? Why it return type, and how do I used it? Is there others function where I need learn to be dot net expert?
View 3 RepliesRecently I found a way to make CType work with generics (FYI, VB 2010 Express with option strict on). Say I have two generic types, T1 and T2, with variables x as T1 and y as T2. y=CType(x,T2) diagnoses with "Value of type 'T1' cannot be converted to 'T2'". y=CType(CObj(x),T2) compiles cleanly, and it works fine provided that T1 can be converted to T2. Failing that, an exception will be raised at run-time. Obviously, a downside of this is the boxing performance hit. Also, it is a half a step backward along the road to strong typing (a type conversion problem is discovered at run-time vice compile-time).
These objections aside, consider the GSU class below. There are two ways to do a generic CType of a variable, and then there is a way to do a CType of an entire array. GSU is sufficient (see sub Test) to convert an item or an array of items between, for example, all the numeric types (byte, short, double, ...). Exception handling remains to be done.
Type conversion code tends to get lengthy, so I think this is a nice result. What do you think? I am guessing that CType has some pre-generic smarts in it, and all I did was find a way to exploit it in the context of generics and option strict. I am mostly interested in generic tricks for value types.
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Ever since I moved from VB6 to VB.NET somewhere in 2005, I've been using CType to do casting from one data type to another. I do this because it is simply faster to type, used to exist in VB6 and I do not know why I have to be using DirectCast if there is apparently no difference between them.I use TryCast once in a while because I understand that sometimes casting can fail. I however cannot get the difference between CType and DirectCast.
View 3 RepliesSuppose I have the following code:
Public Class MyDbTransaction
Implements IDbTransaction
Private itsTransaction As IDbTransaction
Public Sub New(ByVal trans As IDbTransaction)
If trans Is Nothing Then Throw New ArgumentNullException("trans")
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1. I have three classes. Now I want to know how do I convert object to my class runtime?
for example,
Dim obj as New Object
obj = CType( MyPassedObject, Class1 )
Now, in above code, MyPassedObject can be Class1 or Class2 or Class3 but it is passed as Object. So is there any way that I can convert into CType as per the type of that object, directly to that class? I mean, I can pass object name into parameter and write down CASE statement here to convert to that class but I do not want to write down Case statement for each of my class, so just want to know is it possible anyway?
I mean just for example, Can I do something like obj = CType( MyPassedObject, GetObject('Class1') or any other way?
2. Now for this obj, I am getting properties runtime and setting values and then updating.
for example,
Dim PropertyInfo As Reflection.PropertyInfo() = obj.GetType.GetProperties()
Now, Will it work fine if obj has been declared as Object and then I typeCast it runtime and then I get properties and set its values. Will it work if obj's variable type is Object or it must be that class type itself.
I am wondering if this is a bug. Can't understand why would CType work this way...!
View 1 RepliesI'm developing a custom control for numeric input that does some basic value range checking and have run into an issue when I set my property ValueMin equal to Long.MinValue. The IDE generates the following line in form1.designer.vb file that subsequently is flagged as generating an overflow.
Me.NumericInputBox1.ValueMin = CType(-9223372036854775808,Long)
I've done some checking using the Immediate Window with the following results.
?Long.MinValue
-9223372036854775808
?ctype(Long.MinValue, Long)
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It appears that the CType function does not recognize the minimum Long value when the value is typed into the function, but works fine if it is passed Long.MinValue or a string with the value. It works fine for a typed in value equal to (Long.MinValue + 1). This problem only occurs with the Long (Int64) type.
in terms of performance (speed), does directcast beat ctype?
View 6 Replieswhat exactly is the type of the second argument of CType
CType(testobject, Control)
what exactly is Control? how can Control be used as though it is an expression?i nid to know this because i'm trying to build a function that takes the exact parameters of CType, let's call it CType2public function CType2 (byref object as Object, byval thetype as Type) as Object problem is when i do this: CType2(testobject, Control) they give me "Control is a type and cannot be used as an expression".
I know about the existence of System.Nullable(Of T) Structure.I am trying to write a class to replace it: The Nullable(Of T) Class [VB code below]. But when I tested the Nullable(Of T) Class (See NullableOfTClassTest Class, Method Main) an exception occurs when using the CType operator to convert from System.Int32.Why does this happen at runtime, why isn't my Ctype operator method being called?
NOTE: code below reordered and reduced in order to hilite problem.
Namespace MyNamespace
Public NotInheritable Class NullableOfTClassTest
Private Sub New()
End Sub
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