I'd like to convert a GUID to a string on one line of code instead of two.

//Biztalk does not like either of these two lines of code
// which work fine in C# (vStrGUID is a string variable)
// Says "illegal dotted name" on the Guid().ToString
// and says "an object ref is required for a non-static field

//vStrGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
//vStrGUID = (System.Guid.NewGuid()).ToString();

// This works fine (so far)
vGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid();
vStrGUID = vGUID.ToString();

Is this one of those cases where XLangS is just different than C#???

Thanks in advance,
Neal Walters
http://Biztalk-Training.com - Biztalk 2004 Training Videos

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Hi Neal,

Try this:

vStrGUID = System.String.Format ("{0}", System.Guid.NewGuid ());

I often find I have to jump through a few hoops to get XLANG/s to do
something.

It would be good to see some examples of "Best Practices" and code examples.

Regards,

Alan


"Neal Walters" wrote:

>
> I'd like to convert a GUID to a string on one line of code instead of two.
>
> //Biztalk does not like either of these two lines of code
> // which work fine in C# (vStrGUID is a string variable)
> // Says "illegal dotted name" on the Guid().ToString
> // and says "an object ref is required for a non-static field
>
> //vStrGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
> //vStrGUID = (System.Guid.NewGuid()).ToString();
>
> // This works fine (so far)
> vGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid();
> vStrGUID = vGUID.ToString();
>
> Is this one of those cases where XLangS is just different than C#???
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Neal Walters
> http://Biztalk-Training.com - Biztalk 2004 Training Videos
>

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Neal,
System.Convert.ToString(System.Guid.NewGuid());
doesn't give any compilation errors, you might wanna check if it works.
Regards
Dev

"Neal Walters" <NealWalters@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> I'd like to convert a GUID to a string on one line of code instead of two.
>
> //Biztalk does not like either of these two lines of code
> // which work fine in C# (vStrGUID is a string variable)
> // Says "illegal dotted name" on the Guid().ToString
> // and says "an object ref is required for a non-static field
>
> //vStrGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
> //vStrGUID = (System.Guid.NewGuid()).ToString();
>
> // This works fine (so far)
> vGUID = System.Guid.NewGuid();
> vStrGUID = vGUID.ToString();
>
> Is this one of those cases where XLangS is just different than C#???
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Neal Walters
> http://Biztalk-Training.com - Biztalk 2004 Training Videos
>

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