I can't find it .. what am I missing?

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik

Sahil,

It's not a C# feature, but a VB feature. What are you trying to do?


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>I can't find it .. what am I missing?

Wrong language perhaps? DirectCast is a VB.NET keyword, this is a C#
newsgroup....



Mattias

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Well I'm trying to cast my objects in a standard remoting like scenario. I
was a DirectCast fan .. (over CType in VB)

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik





"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Sahil,
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> It's not a C# feature, but a VB feature. What are you trying to do?
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The closest equivalent in C# is to put the type you want to cast to in
parenthesis in front of the reference variable you want to cast. Note that
both will fail with an exception if the cast is invalid.

Dim tb As TextBox
tb = DirectCast(Sender, TextBox)

TextBox tb;
tb = (TextBox)sender;

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Sahil,

I know nothing about Net 2.0

However I am almost sure that especially Jay wants to help you about this in
the VBNet language group, and when you ask it him he will give all C#
answers as well..

:-)

Cor

Huh?

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> Sahil,
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> I know nothing about Net 2.0
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> However I am almost sure that especially Jay wants to help you about this
> in the VBNet language group, and when you ask it him he will give all C#
> answers as well..
>
> :-)
>
> Cor
>

Thanks Rob. I thought I had used DirectCast in C# too .. :-/ ... I've been
programming in both C# and VB.NET concurrently which is why I end up writing
code that looks like this.

Dim conn as SqlConnection ;

And yeah VB.NET 2.0 does have DirectCast.

Thanks for your replies gentlemen !

- Sahil Malik
http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik




"Rob Windsor [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The closest equivalent in C# is to put the type you want to cast to in
> parenthesis in front of the reference variable you want to cast. Note that
> both will fail with an exception if the cast is invalid.
>
> Dim tb As TextBox
> tb = DirectCast(Sender, TextBox)
>
> TextBox tb;
> tb = (TextBox)sender;
>
> --
> Rob Windsor [MVP-VB]
> G6 Consulting
> Toronto, Canada
> http://msmvps.com/windsor/
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> "Sahil Malik" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> >I can't find it .. what am I missing?
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> > - Sahil Malik
> > http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
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> >
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> Huh?
>
"Almost"

I did not know you would read this now you see how much trust I have in you.

:-)

Cor

should not we use tb = (sender as TextBox);
and then check if tb is null

"Rob Windsor [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The closest equivalent in C# is to put the type you want to cast to in
> parenthesis in front of the reference variable you want to cast. Note that
> both will fail with an exception if the cast is invalid.
>
> Dim tb As TextBox
> tb = DirectCast(Sender, TextBox)
>
> TextBox tb;
> tb = (TextBox)sender;
>
> --
> Rob Windsor [MVP-VB]
> G6 Consulting
> Toronto, Canada
> http://msmvps.com/windsor/
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