Simple Question

[thhynes]

Okay...
my notes from the class instructor are okay at best

the code givin is

textbox = variable.tostring ("D")

I am trying to get a constant value that has been declared
and to display that value in a text box as described above but I keep getting this error

An unhandled exception of type 'System.FormatException' occurred in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: Format specifier was invalid.

Whats going on?
Thanks!
Tom

 

[kulrom]

Well, if your variable is not a date datatype then you can't format it in this way ... there are other ways how to format the thing
say you want to format it to long date ("D" stands for long and "d" stands for short date format) ... you can try somethign like this

[COLOR=blue]Dim [/COLOR]variable [COLOR=blue]as[/COLOR] date = [COLOR=blue]Date[/COLOR].now [COLOR=darkgreen]'if variable is i.e. string the code below will throw a warn[/COLOR]
textbox = variable.tostring ("D") [COLOR=darkgreen]'this will return monday october 12th 2005[/COLOR]

HTH
Regards