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Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is not validI'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this exception. I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). It doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The source of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a text box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every time. The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... Dim s As String = "0" Dim i As Integer i = s The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in VS 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text of the exception from the above code follows... System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String Value) at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much! Steve In article <EDC49825-D80E-477B-9A93-A28489C67***@microsoft.com>,
S***@discussions.microsoft.com says... Show quote > Hi all, It worked for me too (with Option Strict Off). Could be a regional > > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this exception. > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). It > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The source > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a text > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every time. > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... > > Dim s As String = "0" > Dim i As Integer > > i = s > > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in VS > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text of > the exception from the above code follows... > > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct > format. > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 settings thing. Are all of your regional settings the same (Number format, decimal character, thousands separator, etc...) Thanks for your response Patrick! My regional settings are identical to
those of another colleague's who doesn't receive the exception, and there's no setting that indicates a 0 should not be treated as an integer. I would also think that the absence of the exception in VS 2003 would imply that the cause isn't an OS regional setting. Show quote "Patrick Steele" wrote: > In article <EDC49825-D80E-477B-9A93-A28489C67***@microsoft.com>, > S***@discussions.microsoft.com says... > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this exception. > > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). It > > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - > > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The source > > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a text > > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every time. > > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... > > > > Dim s As String = "0" > > Dim i As Integer > > > > i = s > > > > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works > > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in VS > > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried > > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text of > > the exception from the above code follows... > > > > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is > > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct > > format. > > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String > > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) > > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > > Value) > > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- > > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > > Value) > > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 > > It worked for me too (with Option Strict Off). Could be a regional > settings thing. Are all of your regional settings the same (Number > format, decimal character, thousands separator, etc...) > > -- > Patrick Steele > http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele > This is the worst programming method ever. Why in the world would you even
do that? Do you have Option Strict On in your VB projects? This wouldn't compile if you did. If you have some need to convert a string to an integer, do it specifically. Code like this causes weird problems that is really difficult to track down. Dim s as String = "0" Dim i as Integer i = CType(s, Integer) Robin S. ----------------------------- Show quote "SFry" <S***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EDC49825-D80E-477B-9A93-A28489C67973@microsoft.com... > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this > exception. > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). > It > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The > source > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a > text > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every > time. > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... > > Dim s As String = "0" > Dim i As Integer > > i = s > > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in > VS > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text > of > the exception from the above code follows... > > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' > is > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct > format. > at > Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 > > Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much! > > Steve > > > I appreciate your response RobinS, but apparently you didn't read my post
very thoroughly. I specified that I have Option Strict Off and that this exception is thrown regardless of the context of the conversion, whether it be implicit or explicitly cast. Explicitly converting the string as you have indicated below will still throw the exception on my machine. The problem was identified when I was trying to convert the text in a text box into an integer. The simple code I provided is merely an example of something that should work (with option strict off) that doesn't. Show quote "RobinS" wrote: > This is the worst programming method ever. Why in the world would you even > do that? Do you have Option Strict On in your VB projects? This wouldn't > compile if you did. If you have some need to convert a string to an > integer, do it specifically. Code like this causes weird problems that is > really difficult to track down. > > Dim s as String = "0" > Dim i as Integer > i = CType(s, Integer) > > Robin S. > ----------------------------- > "SFry" <S***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:EDC49825-D80E-477B-9A93-A28489C67973@microsoft.com... > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this > > exception. > > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). > > It > > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - > > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The > > source > > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a > > text > > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every > > time. > > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... > > > > Dim s As String = "0" > > Dim i As Integer > > > > i = s > > > > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works > > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in > > VS > > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried > > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text > > of > > the exception from the above code follows... > > > > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' > > is > > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct > > format. > > at > > Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String > > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) > > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > > Value) > > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- > > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > > Value) > > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 > > > > Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much! > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > Yes, I did get that. My point was, "Why do you care, since this is not good
programming practice and you shouldn't be doing it this way anyway?" ;-) Robin S. -------------------------------------------- Show quote "SFry" <S***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BF4DAAA2-DD72-44A7-B23D-6A93DE6F44DB@microsoft.com... >I appreciate your response RobinS, but apparently you didn't read my post > very thoroughly. I specified that I have Option Strict Off and that this > exception is thrown regardless of the context of the conversion, whether > it > be implicit or explicitly cast. Explicitly converting the string as you > have > indicated below will still throw the exception on my machine. The > problem > was identified when I was trying to convert the text in a text box into > an > integer. The simple code I provided is merely an example of something > that > should work (with option strict off) that doesn't. > > "RobinS" wrote: > >> This is the worst programming method ever. Why in the world would you >> even >> do that? Do you have Option Strict On in your VB projects? This wouldn't >> compile if you did. If you have some need to convert a string to an >> integer, do it specifically. Code like this causes weird problems that >> is >> really difficult to track down. >> >> Dim s as String = "0" >> Dim i as Integer >> i = CType(s, Integer) >> >> Robin S. >> ----------------------------- >> "SFry" <S***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:EDC49825-D80E-477B-9A93-A28489C67973@microsoft.com... >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this >> > exception. >> > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET >> > 2.0). >> > It >> > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes >> > place - >> > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The >> > source >> > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from >> > a >> > text >> > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception >> > every >> > time. >> > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... >> > >> > Dim s As String = "0" >> > Dim i As Integer >> > >> > i = s >> > >> > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it >> > works >> > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed >> > in >> > VS >> > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried >> > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full >> > text >> > of >> > the exception from the above code follows... >> > >> > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type >> > 'Integer' >> > is >> > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a >> > correct >> > format. >> > at >> > Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String >> > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) >> > at >> > Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String >> > Value) >> > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- >> > at >> > Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String >> > Value) >> > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in >> > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 >> > >> > Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much! >> > >> > Steve >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> I discovered the solution to this should anyone else run into it...
Modify the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sPositiveSign registry key so that its value is nothing. If it appears as though the value is already empty (as it did in my case), edit the data string to some arbitrary viewable character, save it, open it up again and remove the value. Show quote "SFry" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a little help in determining what's causing this exception. > I'm getting it when running VB.NET apps developed in VS 2005 (.NET 2.0). It > doesn't appear to matter under what context the conversion takes place - > whether it's implicit or explicitly cast - it barfs either way. The source > of the string "0" doesn't appear to matter either...whether it's from a text > box, data grid, or simply coded directly, it throws the exception every time. > The following will fail, for example (option strict: off)... > > Dim s As String = "0" > Dim i As Integer > > i = s > > The problem is specific to my machine and 1 other colleague's...it works > fine for everybody else. Furthermore, running a VB.NET app developed in VS > 2003 (.NET 1.1) from my machine does NOT produce the error. I tried > re-installing the 2.0 framework, but still get the exception. Full text of > the exception from the above code follows... > > System.InvalidCastException: Conversion from string "0" to type 'Integer' is > not valid. ---> System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct > format. > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ParseDouble(String > Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat) > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > --- End of inner exception stack trace --- > at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(String > Value) > at TestInt0.Form1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in > C:\VS_Temp\TestInt0\TestInt0\Form1.vb:line 36 > > Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks so much! > > Steve > > >  |
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