System::String^ to int conversion in VC 2005

[Gaffi1]

Hello. I'm still fairly new to C++, and I'm using the cookie-cutter style coding built into Visual Studio 2005 to help me out. From there, I'm adding additional code as needed.

What this means for me is, when I have a text box on a form, the default type of the Text field seems to be System::String^.

I'm trying to take a user input of integers in the text boxes to output to a binary file. Then, that file is made available to another program. I've got the file i/o all figured out, but when I try to take the value of the text box, I get an error that I can't convert from 'System::String ^' to 'int'.

This make sense to me as well, but I can't figure out how to get the data type of the text box to default to int (or maybe there is another method of doing what I am trying to do...). I have tried to cast with (int) and static_cast<int>, but these did not help.

I noticed that on other forms controls (for example, the progress bar control) there is a property called 'Value', but this is just not present for the text box control.

Here is what I am currently doing in short form...

int Value1;
Value1 = this->Value1TextBox->Text;
(write Value1 to file with int type)

Is there any way to make this conversion or is there another way to do this?

Thanks very much!

 

[Gaffi1]

Ok... I've figured it out, though I found very little information about this method in books or google...

This is the correct conversion (or at least it's one way that works):

int Value1;
Value1 = System::Convert::ToInt32(this->Value1TextBox->Text);
(write Value1 to file with int type)