[Derek1356]

OK, I'm fairly new to C#, and am trying to set up a log in page to bring you to form2 if your username and password is correct. My problem is, is I get two errors saying 'Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'bool' '. Here's my code :

      bool username = true;
            bool password = true;


            username = (userName.Text);
            password = (password1.Text);

            if (username == true && password == true);
            {
                
            }
        }	

What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help? And also, what's the code to 'If all these are true, go to Form2? As stated I'm new to C# and needed help.

[Skydiver]

On lines 5 and 6, you are trying to assign strings (eg. userName.Text, password1.Text) to a bool. As the compiler said, it can't figure out how automatically convert a string to a boolean.

It's like trying to do this:

bool isBlue = "red";    // !!! Compilation error

What you want to do is do a comparison using a comparison operator. Comparison operators will return a bool.

bool isBlue = ("red" == "Blue");

As for bringing up a second form, how did you bring up the first form?

[Derek1356]

Well, as for bringing up the form, I use the Visual C#.NET version, that might be in the core code that's pre wrote on a project. I know in VB.NET it's something like

form2.Show

But still thanks for the help.

[Curtis Rutland]

VB.NET lets you cheat, by using a default instance. So you can use Form names as if they were static. C# does not.

If you want to show a new form, you must create a new form:

Form2 f2 = new Form2();
f2.Show();
//f2.ShowDialog();

Getting data from Form1 to Form2

[Derek1356]

Curtis Rutland, on 23 July 2012 - 08:06 AM, said:

VB.NET lets you cheat, by using a default instance. So you can use Form names as if they were static. C# does not.

If you want to show a new form, you must create a new form:

Form2 f2 = new Form2();
f2.Show();
//f2.ShowDialog();

Getting data from Form1 to Form2

Thanks so much for that. I'm still having a few errors on the last help but I'll work on it myself for another week or two before I ask for help again.