Method calls don't exist?

[jdn]

Driving me nuts.

Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a
string.

Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a
string.replace.

Fails. Though I can do stringname.leng th and get the property, if I try any
of the methods (Replace, Remove, ToUpper, ToLower, etc.), it tells me:

stringname.Repl ace does not exist.

Yet while debugging, I get autocomplete when I type stringname. but still,
no methods 'exist.'

Any ideas?

TIA

jdn
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[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

may we see the actual code, please?

"jdn" <jd*@discussion s.microsoft.com > wrote in message
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Driving me nuts.

Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a
string.

Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a
string.replace.

Fails. Though I can do stringname.leng th and get the property, if I try
any
of the methods (Replace, Remove, ToUpper, ToLower, etc.), it tells me:

stringname.Repl ace does not exist.

Yet while debugging, I get autocomplete when I type stringname. but still,
no methods 'exist.'

Any ideas?

TIA

jdn
ki******@earthl ink.net

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

jdn <jd*@discussion s.microsoft.com > wrote:

Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a
string.

Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a
string.replace.

Fails. Though I can do stringname.leng th and get the property, if I try any
of the methods (Replace, Remove, ToUpper, ToLower, etc.), it tells me:

stringname.Repl ace does not exist.

Yet while debugging, I get autocomplete when I type stringname. but still,
no methods 'exist.'

Any ideas?

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
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[jdn]

I don't have the exact code with me, but here's a reproduction:

public string CleanString(Bus inessObject oBusinessObject )
{
string m_TempString = "";
string OldValue = "";
OldValue = oBusinessObject .FunctionToGetO ldValue;
m_TempString = oBusinessObject .StringToClean. Replace(OldValu e, "");
return m_TempString;
}

Where FunctionToGetOl dValue does database stuff, and StringToClean is a
property of the business object.

The .Replace call fails. If I type in ?OldValue in the command window while
debugging, I get the value (which is wrong in itself I think), and I can do
?OldValue.Lengt h fine, but again, if I type in ?OldValue.Repla ce("blahblah",
""), I get the error:

"OldValue.Repla ce" does not exist.

jdn

"Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]" wrote:

may we see the actual code, please?

"jdn" <jd*@discussion s.microsoft.com > wrote in message
news:C6******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Driving me nuts.

Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a
string.

Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a
string.replace.

Fails. Though I can do stringname.leng th and get the property, if I try
any
of the methods (Replace, Remove, ToUpper, ToLower, etc.), it tells me:

stringname.Repl ace does not exist.

Yet while debugging, I get autocomplete when I type stringname. but still,
no methods 'exist.'

Any ideas?

TIA

jdn
ki******@earthl ink.net

[jdn]

http://www.dotnet247.com/247referenc...29/148974.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeff_adkins/ar.../16/73926.aspx

It looked to me like my code wasn't working, but I could have 'fixed' it and
been thrown off by the weird immediate window behavior while debugging. I
will double-check this evening and post back.

But at least, it is a known issue, apparently.

jdn

"jdn" wrote:

Driving me nuts.

Web page calls a function in a different class library that is to return a
string.

Inside this function, I create a string, give it a value, then try to do a
string.replace.

Fails. Though I can do stringname.leng th and get the property, if I try any
of the methods (Replace, Remove, ToUpper, ToLower, etc.), it tells me:

stringname.Repl ace does not exist.

Yet while debugging, I get autocomplete when I type stringname. but still,
no methods 'exist.'

Any ideas?

TIA

jdn
ki******@earthl ink.net