Question

here are 2 screen shots when i try to debug my code in visual studio 2005

i want to save string value in variable check in variable a but it saves -1 not the actual string which is something like that "<username>admin</username>"

Answer 1

If you want to save the value of check in a, then your assignment is the wrong way round. Currently it’s converting the value of a to a string, and storing the result in check.

Of course, you haven’t specified the type of a – it may be converted to a string one way in the debugger, but the actual ToString method may be overridden to do something different.

If you actually meant to describe the question the other way round, you need to provide a lot more information – a short but complete program to demonstrate the problem would be ideal.

String assignment very definitely works in C# – so the chances are incredibly high that you’re doing something strange in the code that you haven’t shown us.