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Claushingebjerg 886 posts 2415 karma points

Jan 16, 2015 @ 09:18

Syntax difference when content is "TypedContent"

I have a blob of code, that works fine and looks to be standar razor code... But when using this within a typedContext context it fails

The working code outside of the TypedContent is this :

if (@fieldset.HasValue("youtube")) {
    string myString = @fieldset.GetValue("youtube");
    int charPositionStart = myString.IndexOf("=");
    int lengthOfText = 11;
    myString = myString.Substring(charPositionStart+1, lengthOfText);
    var myBg = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/" + @myString + "/maxresdefault.jpg";

    ---- HTML stuff ----
}

I then correct this to match the TypedContent variable like this:

if (@boxItem.HasValue("youtube")) {
    string myString = @boxItem.GetPropertyValue("youtube");
    int charPositionStart = myString.IndexOf("=");
    int lengthOfText = 11;
    myString = myString.Substring(charPositionStart+1, lengthOfText);
    var myBg = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/" + @myString + "/maxresdefault.jpg";

    ---- HTML stuff -----

}

The first error i get, and this seems to be the same through the entir code block is this:

Compiler Error Message: CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'string'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

on this line:

string myString = @boxItem.GetPropertyValue("youtube");

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Dennis Aaen 4457 posts 17970 karma points admin hq c-trib

Jan 16, 2015 @ 09:23
0
Hi Claus,

What if you do something like this
```
var myString = @boxItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("youtube");
```
Does this help, or did you get same error.

/Dennis
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Jeavon Leopold 3008 posts 13221 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 16, 2015 @ 09:25
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Hi Claus,

Either make the variable implicit
```
var myString = boxItem.GetPropertyValue("youtube");
```
Or specify the return type
```
string myString = boxItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("youtube");
```
Jeavon
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Jeavon Leopold 3008 posts 13221 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Jan 16, 2015 @ 09:26

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Or both as Dennis has suggested :)

Also you don't need/want those @ in there

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Claushingebjerg 886 posts 2415 karma points

Jan 16, 2015 @ 09:31
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```
string myString = boxItem.GetPropertyValue<string>("youtube");
```
did the trick, thanks guys
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