Help on Type Casting

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Why isn't this working ?

Dim x As Integer = 90
 Dim temp As Object
 Dim typ As Type = Type.GetType("System.String")
 temp = CType(x, Typ)

It shows error in 2nd argument of Ctype function. :doh:

Posted 14-Jul-10 23:52pm

Dan Suthar

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Estys · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-15T00:32:00

Solution 1

CType gives the error because there is no valid conversion between x (Integer) and typ(Type!!!). You would want to use CType(x, String) or even CType(x, Object).
Anyhow why not use x.ToString()?

Cheers

Posted 15-Jul-10 0:32am

Estys

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Dan Suthar 15-Jul-10 10:25am

by the way it shouldn't be invalid as we can always convert int to string my friend. And by using this way , i want to make it dynamic , so lets say by typing the STRING NAME of any type we can convert the target to it or not?

I can always use CType(x, String) or x.ToString() but that will make me fix at a particular type cast at compile time. I want to do that at run time , say depending upon the user choice. Any help will great .