Why does this happen

[shrim]

When i program in VB 2008 and want to get user input it makes me put CInt infront of the Val()
example:
widthA = CInt(Val(Me.txtBoxWidth.Text))
if i do not put the CInt i get a run time error and when i tell my teacher about this he said it should not be doing that because at my school computer it does not require CInt only on my computer.

[Tony]

likely because the input from a textbox is treated as a string (words), and you'd need to explicitly convert it to an integer (numbers) before use.

[Panphobia]

But usually, at least when I used vb.net in grade 10, I never needed to convert it, you would automatically get the text from the textbox and store it in an int var

[Tony]

Panphobia @ Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:51 pm wrote:

...when I used vb.net in grade 10...

shrim @ Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:27 pm wrote:

When i program in VB 2008...

Sounds like you might be comparing different (versions of) languages.