Casting in Visual Basic

[Chris Kinsman]

Has anyone figured out how to handle casts in VB?

Given the following line of code in C#:

((TextBox)e.Item.FindControl("Freight")).Text

where e is a DataGridCommandEventArgs.

FindControl returns a generic control instance which must then be cast to a
TextBox to use any TextBox specific properties. This works great in C# but
for the life of me I can't figure it out in VB.

Any ideas?

[Kenny Acock]

Chris,

Look up the CType function.

--Kenny


"Chris Kinsman" <ckinsman@devx.com> wrote:
>Has anyone figured out how to handle casts in VB?
>
>Given the following line of code in C#:
>
>((TextBox)e.Item.FindControl("Freight")).Text
>
>where e is a DataGridCommandEventArgs.
>
>FindControl returns a generic control instance which must then be cast to
a
>TextBox to use any TextBox specific properties. This works great in C#
but
>for the life of me I can't figure it out in VB.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>