casting problem

[rodchar]

hey all,
the statement below is giving me a problem and i'm not sure why:
medDrp.Selected Index = (ViewState["test"] == null) ? -1 : ViewState["test"];

the message is saying that i can't implicitly convert an object to int, Huh?

thanks,
rodchar

[Marc Gravell]

Re: casting problem

It doesn't trust you that ViewState["test"] is an int - try

medDrp.Selected Index = ViewState["test"] == null ? -1 : (int)
ViewState["test"];

Marc

[rodchar]

Re: casting problem

thank you very much for the help.

"Marc Gravell" wrote:

It doesn't trust you that ViewState["test"] is an int - try
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medDrp.Selected Index = ViewState["test"] == null ? -1 : (int)
ViewState["test"];
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Marc
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[Tom Spink]

Re: casting problem

rodchar wrote:

hey all,
the statement below is giving me a problem and i'm not sure why:
medDrp.Selected Index = (ViewState["test"] == null) ? -1 :
ViewState["test"];
>
the message is saying that i can't implicitly convert an object to int,
Huh?
>
thanks,
rodchar

Hi rodchar,

You may be interested to know that you can compact that statement (if you're
using in C# 2.0) down to:

///
medDrp.Selected Index = (int) (ViewState["test"] ?? -1);
///

Where ?? is the null coalessence operator, and tests for nullity on the
first component, returning the second component if null and simply the
first if not.

--
Hope this helps,
Tom Spink

Google first, ask later.

[rodchar]

Re: casting problem

Awesome, thank you everyone again for this help.

"Tom Spink" wrote:

rodchar wrote:
>

hey all,
the statement below is giving me a problem and i'm not sure why:
medDrp.Selected Index = (ViewState["test"] == null) ? -1 :
ViewState["test"];

the message is saying that i can't implicitly convert an object to int,
Huh?

thanks,
rodchar

>
Hi rodchar,
>
You may be interested to know that you can compact that statement (if you're
using in C# 2.0) down to:
>
///
medDrp.Selected Index = (int) (ViewState["test"] ?? -1);
///
>
Where ?? is the null coalessence operator, and tests for nullity on the
first component, returning the second component if null and simply the
first if not.
>
--
Hope this helps,
Tom Spink
>
Google first, ask later.
>