Question

I have a string value that needs to be converted into my user defined custom type. how to do this, please help me.

public class ItemMaster
{
    public static ItemMaster loadFromReader(string oReader)
    {
        return oReader;//here i am unable to convert into ItemMaster type
    }
}

Answer 1

Depending on your type there are two ways that you could do it.

The first is adding a constructor to your type that takes a String parameter.

public YourCustomType(string data) {
    // use data to populate the fields of your object
}

The second is adding a static Parse method.

public static YourCustomType Parse(string input) {
    // parse the string into the parameters you need
    return new YourCustomType(some, parameters);
}