Converting web control from string to decimal.

[BezerkRogue]

I have created some code that finds controls in a datalist that is generated from a SQL query. It takes the control and puts the data into a string. Here is the code.

If c0a IsNot Nothing Then
                    If c0a.[GetType]() Is GetType(TextBox) Then
                        cb = c0a.ToString()

I need to convert that to a decimal. I am using the following code to do this.

 IData.Value = Decimal.Parse(cb)

I am getting the following error. Input string was not in a correct format.

What am I missing?

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Have you tried printing what value c0a.ToString() returns?

[BezerkRogue]

It is only showing a LabelSystem.Web .UI.WebControls .TextBox. It should be displaying 23.

[Shashi Sadasivan]

i will presume that c0a is an instance of your webControl you created.

Override the ToString method in that control to return the text in the textBox

[BezerkRogue]

Ok. I am new to this. How do I do that?

[Shashi Sadasivan]

How To: Override the ToString Method

Do Post back if this dosent help

[BezerkRogue]

It comes up with nothing. The code I have inserted is:

cb = c0a.ToString()
System.Console.WriteLine(cb)

[Shashi Sadasivan]

It comes up with nothing. The code I have inserted is:

cb = c0a.ToString()
System.Console.WriteLine(cb)

Could you please paste the code of the overridden ToString Method?

[BezerkRogue]

I am having difficulties with this as I am not using C#. I have tried to duplicate the code but can't. I scrapped it and used the code I inserted earlier.

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Sorry I did not realise you were doing this in VB .Net
Im not sure about the Vb .Net syntax for overriding methods, But it should be similar to

[CODE=vbnet]Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
Return Me.textBox1.tex t + "---"
End Function[/CODE]

Do paste your Vb .Net code. Overriding methods might be a new thing for you but this is exactly what you want.

[BezerkRogue]

Here is the Override code:

    Public Overrides Function ToString() As String
        Return Me.ca.text + "---"
    End Function

It get an error that ca is not a member of HR_HR2. I get the same error is I insert the variable for the find control.

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Sorry about this,
We got deviated from the main topic.

Read the post from the beginning and found I was heading in the wrong direction (i was assuming you were creating user controls)

this is what I came up with
[CODE=vbnet]Dim controlText As String = ""
If c0a IsNot Nothing Then
If c0a.[GetType]() = GetType(TextBox ) Then
Dim tb As TextBox = DirectCast(c0a, TextBox)
controlText = tb.Text
End If
End If[/CODE]

Got the vb .net equivalent by converting the foolowing c# code
[CODE=cpp]string controlText = "";
if(c0a != null)
{
if(c0a.GetType( ) == typeof(TextBox) )
{
TextBox tb = (TextBox)c0a;
controlText = tb.Text;
}
}[/CODE]

[BezerkRogue]

It is showing the text I entered into the box. I typed in 23. Could this code resolve the issue that I am having?

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Yes implement it in your code. I think this is what will work.
Sorry i got into the influnce that it was a custom conrtol

[BezerkRogue]

That worked perfectly. Thanks for the help. I was totally lost there.