String to double in Visual Studio usercontrol

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I have a usercontrol with only a textbox in it. I want to parse the string of that textbox to a double (I'm making lots of calculations). I thought it should be easy to do that in the code-file of the usercontrol, so I tried something like this:

C#

public double txt
{ 
    get { return double.Parse(txtInput.Text); } 
    set { txtInput.Text = value.ToString(); } 
}

When I do this, there is no problem. On my form I'm trying to do:

C#

vCurrent = Math.Round(uscontrTextbox.txt * velocity, 4);

But when I do this I get the following error:
Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'double'
This error is related to the designer class of the form:

C#

this.uscontrTextbox.txt = "";

How can I solve this?

Posted 7-Oct-12 23:13pm

Frans Jan

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Solution 2

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<pre>get
{
if(txtInput.Text=="")return 0;
else return double.Parse(txtInput.Text); 
}

Posted 7-Oct-12 23:43pm

MT_

Solution 1

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vCurrent = Math.Round(Convert.ToDouble(uscontrTextbox.txt) * velocity, 4);

or

instead of,

C#

this.uscontrTextbox.txt = "";

use,

C#

this.uscontrTextbox.txt = 0;

Happy coding!
:)

Posted 7-Oct-12 23:17pm

Aarti Meswania

Updated 7-Oct-12 23:27pm

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Frans Jan 8-Oct-12 5:21am

I want to avoid coding like this, becasue I need to do lots of calculations with the textboxes. In this way, I still need to add the Convert.ToDouble() every time I use the control. As said, I'm trying to avoid this, and that's why I chose to use a usercontrol, hoping I could handle the parsing/converting to double only there :)

Thanks for your answer though!

Aarti Meswania 8-Oct-12 5:26am

ok, then instead of
this.uscontrTextbox.txt = "";
use
this.uscontrTextbox.txt = 0;

Frans Jan 8-Oct-12 5:29am

I thought of that as well, but actually I don't want the input fields to have '0' as default string.

But if this is the only way, is there a way to preset this? Else I need to change this every time in the designer. (for about 200+ controls...)

Aarti Meswania 8-Oct-12 5:35am

ok, then use,
public double txt
{
get { return double.Parse((txtInput.Text.Trim()==""? 0 : txtInput.Text.Trim())); }
set { txtInput.Text = value.ToString(); }
}

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Frans Jan · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-08T00:05:00

In order to not set the default string as "0" I used the following code in my usercontrol:

C#

public double txt
{ 
    get { return double.Parse(txtInput.Text); } 
    set { txtInput.Text = value.ToString(); } 
}

public string text
{
     get { return txtInput.Text; }
     set { txtInput.Text = value; }
}

And in the designer class of the form I replaced

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this.uscontrTextbox.txt = "";

with

C#

this.uscontrTextbox.text = "";