I'm helping a colleague develop a "catch all" type error handler for some controls his application. What he wants to do is pass the object that has the error, and the type of that object, such a TextBox or ComboBox, and then call the DirectCast method within his handler to properly address the Text attribute within it. In general, the method is looking like this:
Protected Sub SpecialErrorHandler(ByVal TargetControl As Object, ByVal ControlType As String) MessageBox.Show("Bad Juice: " & DirectCast(TargetControl, ControlType(ObjType)).Text) End Sub
So far any attempts to do a type conversion within the DirectCast method (since it is expecting an object in the general signature) or to even pass in the a Type object properly set is not working.
Any ideas here, or is this one of those "Casting doesn't work that way." type scenarios?
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]
I'm aware that questions like this have been asked before and I doubt it's possible, but I just wanted to make 100% sure that it isn't.In VB.net or C# (either language, it doesn't matter), I want to cast a variable to a type represented by another Type variable. Here's an example of the kind of code that would be needed in C#:
Object castMe = new Foo(); Type castTo = typeof(Foo); Foo beenCast = (castTo.GetRepresentedType())castMe;
I want to assign a Value to a Variable of Decimal Type to do a calculation, but when I enter the decimal value (a 28 digits to the right of the decimal point - very long numbers) it gets altered. I give below what I was doing: Dim MyNumber As Decimal = 0.7777777777777777777777777774
But as soon as I finish typing the number, it becomes 0.77777777777777779 and appears as, Dim MyNumber As Decimal = 0.77777777777777779
And, when the cursor is kept over the altered number it shows as "Double, Represents a Double - precision floating-point number." How can I get the value I wanted to stay without getting changed? I was able to get this long Decimal value as the result of a calculation and get that appears in a text box in the same program. Is there anything I should change in the "Visual Studio 2008" to get this ?
i am using a c++ dll to control a usb device. a while back i created a vb6 program that interfaced with the dll.it worked perfectly.now i am trying to make one in vs2008.here is the header of the function i am trying to use in teh c++ dll [code]but this get no value for textbuffer.and after the function is called a few times it gives me a memory error. i think it is because the string is not fixed length.is there a way i can get this to work in vb.net without rewriting the dll
Public Class Form1 Dim x, c, number(0 To 19) As Integer Dim s As Integer
[CODE]...
The variables in the brackets [example] do not actually have brackets in them in the original code. These are where the issues are. For both variables, it says, "The type for variable [variable] will not be inferred because it is bound to a field in an enclosing scope. Either change the name of [variable], or use the fully qualified name (for example, 'Me.[variable]' or 'MyBase.[variable]')." Now, I'm not entirely sure if this is a stupid question or not, as I'm used to VB '98 because that's what we use in my programming class at High School. let me know why this won't work.
-Note: The intention of this program is to continually loop the generation of numbers for this list until I tell it to stop. Button1 ends the program, Button2 generates the list one time only, Button3 is supposed to loop the generation of the list, and Button4 is supposed to end the loop, but not the program.
I am looking for a good resource on variable naming conventions to illustrate variable type and where variables are declared. So I will have public variables, Private variables, private or local variables. I also may want to declare variables with the same name in different class code (i.e. in the code behind different forms). I am assuming good coding would dicatate a prefix for declaration location.
I have the following code that I am using to parse out a test file. I am getting variable conversion error in Sub Main() when I assign file = Read(). The return value of Read() is a TextFieldParser type. How do I assign the proper variable type to "file" so I can write the output to a text file?
Function Read() Using MyReader As New FileIO.TextFieldParser("C:UsersColinDesktopParse_Me.txt") Dim currentRow As String
I want to use explicit conversion (CType function in VB.NET) to convert the variable d from double type to integer type and store the result as 132.
Imports System.Console Module Module1
Sub Main()
[CODE]...
This is my code. But Visual Basic tells me an error: Error1Type 'i' is not defined.C:\Users\mihaispr\Desktop\Conversie explicita\Conversie explicita\Module1.vb1922Conversie explicita
Writing an asp.net mvc app and i have something like this...
Public Class AA '... has some variables... End Class Public Class BB
[code]....
So, now in my program, i just want to copy object of type AA to an empty variable of type BB?it makes sense to do this, as i expect all the fields in AA type object to be copied to the newly created BB type object, and the ExtraVariable in the BB type object i would (will) just assign a value to it later (after the copy) on my own time!!I know copying BB type to AA type would not be appropriate as there would be lost data!But im trying to copy AA to BB, I've used both DirectCast and CType to do this, and i keep getting "unable to cast" error!
Note: I'm using vb.net (but can read c#, no problems)
Just upgraded a VS 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 website to VS 2008 ASP.NET 3.5. There was an error on the Sub Button_Click. It seemed to be a minor error, the website and the button worked just fine, as usual. What does the error mean?
Protected Sub btnDEreports_Click(ByVal sender As
[code]...
Error 20 Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types.
Ive been trying to replicate a listbox type control that ive seen on applications such as: Limewire, excel, etc where there is a Heading in limewires case lets say name, that you can resize to how ever big you want the colomn name to be (like a splitter) is there a control I can easily add or should I keep on working on buttons and resizing =)
I have 3 controls in my Form.Two Dropdowns and one textbox.My task is if i select a value in one Combobox then the related text should be display in other two controls.Ok I wrote a code in "SelectionChangeCommitted" event and now i am getting the values correctly.
I recently downloaded VB 2010 Express so i am quite new to the language, but i have worked with dark basic, which seems to b very similar.Anyway, my problem is that i cannot seem to correctly set out my array of a custom type/class. i am trying to create two arrays, one of available entities and another of selected entities of which the user selects the entities to be dealt with in irrelevant ways. i have creates a button (called test) which adds some entities to the available list and all the entities come back the same value but they shouldnt be as you'll c in the code. i have run the step into command a found that "available.item(#).Name = " will change all of the entity's names.As of current i am working with lists as the array kept asking for a 'new' statement but i couldnt figure out where to put it.[code]
I am getting the error:"Range variable 'sender' hides a variable in an enclosing block or a range variable previously defined in the query expression."for this
Imports System.Data.SqlClient Imports System.Linq Public Class Form1
[code]....
I can select any other item from the table without the error. "sender" has the same properties as "receiver" in the SQL table.
Does C# have an equivalent to VB.Net's DirectCast?I am aware that it has () casts and the 'as' keyword, but those line up to CType and TryCast.To be clear, these keywords do the following;CType/() casts: If it is already the correct type, cast it, otherwise look for a type converter and invoke it. If no type converter is found, throw an InvalidCastException.
TryCast/"as" keyword: If it is the correct type, cast it, otherwise return null.DirectCast: If it is the correct type, cast it, otherwise throw an InvalidCastException.
EDIT: After I have spelled out the above, some people have still responded that () is equivalent, so I will expand further upon why this is not true.
DirectCast only allows for either Narrowing or Widening conversions on inheritance tree, it does not support conversions across different branches like () does.ie: C#, this compiles and runs:
//This code uses a type converter to go across an inheritance tree double d = 10; int i = (int)d;
i am using code to the value textbox2.text in the report and using the code like below [code]the textbox2 take various values in run time but when i run the code it display only the final value intermediated values are not displayed the whole situation is as follows.[code]
I have a very simple problem where I have a MyList As List(Of MyBaseClass) but and a couple of MySub(ByVal Dummy As MyDerivedClassA)/MySub(ByVal Dummy As MyDerivedClassB). So I want to do the following ...
For Each MyInstance As MyBaseClass In MyList MySub(DirectCast(MyInstance, MyInstance.GetType()) ...
I learned how to use DirectCast over the last few days and it's really helped me. However, I have a similar issue, instead of textboxes I am looking at variables that are referenced in the class.To bring you all up to speed, I have four variables, a Boolean that dictates each of the 4 players I have playing my game. [code] I would assume it'd work similar to DirectCast but I am unsure. What I came up with caused errors: [code]
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