How do I add a button to call a Base10 conversion method

Question

I am very new to MS VS12 and I'm working a class project that requires me to convert a Base 10 number to Bases 2, 3, 8, and 16. It also asks me to put the conversion in a method and then call those methods using buttons and I am not sure how to get started. Can anyone help me?!

Here is what I have so far (taken some of this from Quickest way to convert a base 10 number to any base in .NET?)

    public static string IntToBinary(int value, char[] basechars)
    {
        string binary = IntToBinary(16, new char[] { '0', '1' });

        string hex = IntToBinary(16, new char[] { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6',
          '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'});

        string result = string.Empty;
        int conversion = basechars.Length;

        do
        {
            result = basechars[value % conversion] + result;
            value = value / conversion;
        }
        while (value > 0);

        return result;
      }

I have 5 buttons. A generic 'Convert' that takes a number from a textbox and then a base number (2-16) from another textbox and once the 'Convert' button is clicked it convert the number to the base number that was specified. The other buttons are: Base2, Base3, Base8, Base16. I have to write methods for each of those conversions and call them from their specified buttons

I have to call the methods that pertains to the buttons.

Answer 1

You have two calls to the method itself inside the method, the first would throw it into a loop that would end with a StackOverflowException. Just remove those calls from the method, and perhaps rename it to something that makes more sense as it doesn't only convert to binary:

public static string IntToBase(int value, char[] basechars)
{
    string result = string.Empty;
    int conversion = basechars.Length;

    do
    {
        result = basechars[value % conversion] + result;
        value = value / conversion;
    }
    while (value > 0);

    return result;
}

Now you have something that works.

I assume that you have the number to be converted in a text box, I will call that txtNumber. In the handler for the button that should convert the number to binary, you would parse the text from the text box into a number, then call the method to get it as binary:

int num = Int32.Parse(txtNumber.Text);
string binary = IntToBase(num, new char[] { '0', '1' });

The call to the method is the same as the code that I removed from the method, except it uses the variable num instead of 16.

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There is actually methods in the framework to do the conversion to different bases (except for base 3), but that is probably not what you are supposed to learn in your course. Anyway, that would be:

public static string IntToBase(int value, int base)
{
  return Convert.ToString(value, base);
}