How to remove 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox, Text:' from message and text

Question

I have written a simple program in C# in which

1. messages are displayed using a statement like:

    {
     MessageBox.Show("Enter the Correct Values. ", "Error", 
                     MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Asterisk);
     return;
    }

1. Some text box contents are written to text files using StreamWriter. In both case, in addition to the correct content, I also get the prefix: System.Windows.Forms.TextBox, Text:

2. I get a similar prefix (and a suffix of \r\n) when using StreamReader to read the contents of a text file.

How do I avoid this?

Solution

Without seeing your code, I'm guessing you're passing the TextBox directly to the StreamWriter, rather than passing the TextBox.Text property value. Passing the TextBox reference directly to StreamWriter.WriteLine will call TextBox.ToString() to get a string value that it can write, and it looks like TextBox.ToString() is generating that prefix. Pass in TextBox.Text, and you shouldn't see it anymore.

Comments

[David Merriman]

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