I am a newbie at vb.net, having some previous experience at vb 6. I need help with the conversion of a string set as "b1.d" to an unsigned 32 bit int. i have tried individually changing each character to a byte via the asc function. I resolved this problem by saving the string in the file, and importing it again. is there any way of converting this four character string to an unsigned 32 bit int directly in a program without exporting then importing? 
