Question

string messagestatus;

string.TryParse(
  Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval(e.Row.DataItem, "Status")), out messagestatus
);

I am trying to get the value of status for each row. The status is either sent or save. the error i get is string doesn’t contain a definition for try parse.

I tried to get a integer and it worked perfectly how to solve the above

int msgid;

int.TryParse(
  Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval(e.Row.DataItem, "MsgID")), out msgid
);

Answer 1

Correct, the string class doesn’t have a TryParse method.

This:

string.TryParse(
  Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval(e.Row.DataItem, "Status")), out messagestatus
);

Could be done as:

string messageStatus= Convert.ToString(DataBinder.Eval(e.Row.DataItem, "Status"));