Hello,

I have some binarystrings in the registry (from an older j++ app) that I
need to convert at runtime to ints. What is the best practice for this? In
J++ you could just call Integer.ParseInt(val, 2); I've tried
Convert.ToUInt32(object, int) but I can't get the compiler to believe that
is a valid overload; it keeps complaining that it can't convert an int to an
IFormatProvider, which is a different overload.

Is that convert function broken? Is there another way to do this or am I
just screwed?

Keith

On 10/8/05 8:25 pm, in article #(E-Mail Removed),
"Keith" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have some binarystrings in the registry (from an older j++ app) that I
> need to convert at runtime to ints. What is the best practice for this? In
> J++ you could just call Integer.ParseInt(val, 2); I've tried
> Convert.ToUInt32(object, int) but I can't get the compiler to believe that
> is a valid overload; it keeps complaining that it can't convert an int to an
> IFormatProvider, which is a different overload.
>
> Is that convert function broken? Is there another way to do this or am I
> just screwed?

There isn't a method Convert.ToUInt32(object, int). There's
Convert.ToUInt32(string, int) however - perhaps you just need to cast val to
a string first?

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> There isn't a method Convert.ToUInt32(object, int). There's
> Convert.ToUInt32(string, int) however - perhaps you just need to cast val
> to
> a string first?

Apparently I can't read parameter lists, or at least not yesterday. Yes,
this works fine if cast. Thanks for the boot to the head ;-)