Hi
I am trying to retrieve the value at index 0 of an arraylist as string But keep getting the error message "Conversion from type 'BlogInfo' to type 'String' is not valid." . Please help me out...



dim list as new Arraylist
dim Tempstr as string

Dim m_oBlog As New BlogInfo ---> Dotnetnuke.modules.blog.business.BlogInfo
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list.Add(m_oBlog)
TempStr = Convert.ToString(list.Item(0))


There are items in the list, so the list is defenitely not empty....


Many Thanks

Sheraz

Isn't this error somewhat obvious? Position 0 in your array is not of Type string, it is of type BlogInfo which is why your conversion fails.

I am not that familiar with DNN but you should be able to do this:
Dim TempStr as BlogInfo = CType(list.Item(0), BlogInfo)

You can then access the BlogInfo object from the array in this manner:
TempStr.SomeMethod()

hth.

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thanks buddy its working now..

No problem, glad it worked out for you. =]

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If you like you create your own strongly typed list class by deriving CollectionBase class and implementing your own Add/Remove/Insert/WhatEver methods. See example here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ctionbase.aspx

Or even easier, just use a generic list for your desired type.

-Peter

Ah. Stupid me. This was ASP.NET 2 discussion :)