Hello there,
I am using a 3rd party library and a function which requires a float
value in one of its methods. My data is in a string format and i tried
using Convert.ToDouble and Convert.ToSingle, but didn't work either way.
The value of string is "-57475.4531". The help in VS .NET 2003 tells me
that these convert methods will return double and single precision float
point values respectively but i needed to also cast the return to the
float type to make the compiler happy.  First how do i correctly convert
a string to a float?  As a side note, it does not makes sense to expose
the poor programmer to float in C and C++ and then take that and hide it
without explaining it somewhere. So, to give the benefit of doubt, the
explanation must be somewhere i have not come across. Any help will be
appreciated.
thanks,
BRAMOIN