VS 2008 Using CType And UIntPtr?

Jul 16, 2010

Assume that I have this declaration (according to MSDN):

Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, _
ByVal wMsg As UInteger, _

[code]....

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?

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C# - Difference Between IntPtr And UIntPtr?

Aug 24, 2009

I see everywhere people use IntPtr, is there any reason I should use UIntPtr, instead?

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VS 2008 CType Or DirectCast?

Dec 13, 2009

I 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]

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VS 2008 CType Using A Variable To Hold The Type Doesn't Work

Nov 14, 2010

So I do not know at design time if the var ms is going to be a stringreader or a memorystream. So I am trying to do basically this:

Dim ms as object = myfunction...
Dim mytype As Type = ms.GetType
Dim returnedobject = ser.Deserialize(CType(ms, mytype))

But I get an error saying "type mytype is not defined". How can I do this?

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How To CType() Returns Value

Jul 7, 2010

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?

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Using CType On An Object?

Jul 24, 2009

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.

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Why Does Enum Need To Use A CType

Mar 24, 2011

In vb.net, I got an Enum defined As Integer:
Enum enUtilityTypeDetailStudentEntryWorkflow As Integer
enUTDSEW_Default = 379

[code].....

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?

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Borderstyle Problem With Ctype?

Sep 26, 2011

I cant understand why this does not work! Hope for your intelligent answers ;)

With
CType(Controls(PicsGame(GameCount)),
PictureBox)
BorderStyle =
BorderStyle.None

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Ctype Datarowview To Integer

Feb 29, 2008

Is it possible to change a datarowview object to an integer?

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Ctype Not Working Properly?

Nov 1, 2009

dim 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?

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Difference Between DirectCast() And CType() In .Net?

Jun 16, 2010

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.

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VS 2010 Can't Use Arrays With CType

Oct 25, 2011

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.

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.net - Correct C# Conversion Counterpart For VB's CTYPE()

Jul 12, 2010

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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.net - CType And Type Casting Exception

Feb 25, 2011

[Code]...

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 ""?

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.net - CType Operator Assing To Member

Jan 30, 2012

I have this class: Public Class Foo

[Code]...

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??

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Asp.net - CType NullReferenceException When Trying To Upload A Picture

Jan 26, 2011

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)

[Code]....

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Ctype Doesn't Work Properly?

Oct 31, 2009

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

[code]...

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?

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Ctype Operator - Conversion From And To String

Sep 24, 2010

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
[Code] .....

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CType, Replace Parent Name With Variable Name?

Dec 27, 2009

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

[code]....

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Directcast & Ctype Differences With Enums?

Oct 13, 2009

Public Enum Fruit
Red_Apple = 1
Oranges
Ripe_Banana
End Enum
Private Sub InitCombosRegular()

[Code]...

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

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DirectCast / CType Are Common Function?

Oct 12, 2009

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?

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Flexibility Vs Performance With CType And Generics?

Apr 11, 2012

Recently 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.

[Code].....

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What Will Ctype Return If The Object Is Not Present

Jun 27, 2009

what if the session object is not present

what will it return if CType(Session("pid"), String) is not present

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.net - Casting DataTypes With DirectCast, CType, TryCast?

Apr 24, 2010

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.

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.net - Shared Widening Operator CType Not Being Called?

Dec 14, 2011

Suppose 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")

[Code]...

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Convert Class Runtime In CType In Second Parameter?

Mar 22, 2010

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.

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Ctype Casting To Decimal Returning Negative Value?

Dec 2, 2011

I am wondering if this is a bug. Can't understand why would CType work this way...!

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IDE :: CType Overflow When Converting Minimum Long Value

Oct 1, 2010

I'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.

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Performance (speed), Does Directcast Beat Ctype?

Jan 14, 2011

in terms of performance (speed), does directcast beat ctype?

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Build A Function That Takes The Exact Parameters Of CType?

Nov 2, 2009

what 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".

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