Sorry, I was probably a bit confusing in my message. I tried this first:

if (this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == 11 || this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == 7)

which didn't work because SelectedValue is apparently a string. I thought it would have been an int as it was bound to an int value.

So I then tried this:

if (this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == '11' || this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == '7')

Which didn't work either.

I eventually got it right with this:

if (this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == "11" || this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == "7")

So, it seems that single and double quotation marks are not interchangeable in C# as they are in VFP. Is that correct?



>Looks like you need to cast the two strings as ints : (int)"11", no?
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to compare the SelectedValue of a Drop Down List with a status value, but I'm getting this error:
>>
>>Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'int
>>
>>My code is:
>>
>>UPDATE: changed the next line to include "" marks and got it fixed, I had been using single quotations and that wasn't working
>>

            if (this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == "11" || this.cboStatus.SelectedValue == "7")
>>            {
>>                this.lblDeathDate.Visible = true;
>>                this.txtDeathDate.Visible = true;
>>                this.btnDisplayDeathDateCalendar.Visible = true;
>>            }

>>
>>My DropDownList definition is:
>>
>>

                            <mm:mmDropDownList ID="cboStatus" runat="server" BindingSource="Status" BindingSourceDisplayMember="Status"
>>                                BindingSourceValueMember="StatusPK" BindingValueSource="Policy" BindingValueSourceMember="StatusFK"
>>                                Enabled="False" AutoPostBack="true" OnTextChanged="cboStatus_TextChanged">
>>                            </mm:mmDropDownList>
>>

>>
>>What do I need to do to compare this?