referencing an object inside a class definition

[Italian Pete]

Hi,
I'm trying to define a class. In the class, I'm initializing one of its
private string variables with a value from an HTML form using something like:
'variable = Request.Form.Get("formVariable").ToString();'

However, I'm getting the error:

System.Web.UI.Page.Request denotes a property where a class was expected

What a m I doing wrong?

many thanks,

Pete

[Abubakar]

try using the square brackets.

-Ab.
http://joehacker.blogspot.com

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Hi,
I'm trying to define a class. In the class, I'm initializing one of its private string variables with a value from an HTML form using something like: 'variable = Request.Form.Get("formVariable").ToString();'

However, I'm getting the error:

System.Web.UI.Page.Request denotes a property where a class was expected

What a m I doing wrong?

many thanks,

Pete

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Italian Pete wrote:

I'm trying to define a class. In the class, I'm initializing one of its
private string variables with a value from an HTML form using something like:
'variable = Request.Form.Get("formVariable").ToString();'

However, I'm getting the error:

System.Web.UI.Page.Request denotes a property where a class was expected

What a m I doing wrong?

It's hard to say as you haven't shown much context. Could you provide a
short but complete example which demonstrates the problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html

Jon