DevExpress Input string was not in a correct format

I have started using ASP.NET DevExpress controls quite some time now. In last couple of days I have seen a strange error on pages with the following error message :

"Input string was not in a correct format"

Here is what my page consisted of a list of controls
- ASPxTextBox
- ASPxComboBox
- ASPxButton
- ASPxCallback

I want to pass the input data of ASPxTextBox & ASPxComboBox on button click to server via ASPxCallback and store this information in a database. Not so complicated as it sounds.

I have got some Nlog tracing enabled, got try-catch for ASPxCallback and all wired up. Started testing the page and I got this error ""Input string was not in a correct format"

Started debugging. No server side exceptions and nothing wrong, do not know where the error is coming from after googling and search in DevExpress support tickets I have found how to enable callback errors.

So I have enabled tracing callback errors as mentioned by DevExpress in the article Handling Callback Exceptions on Client.

Now I have got the tracing as:-

at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
at System.Int32.Parse(String s)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.ListEditItemsSerializingHelper.ParseItemIndex(String serializedItem, Int32& startPos)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.ListBoxItemsSerializingHelper.DeserializeItems(String serializedItems, Boolean sortRequired)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.ListBoxProperties.SynchronizeItems(String serializedItems, Boolean isInsertingSyncType)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.ASPxComboBox.SynchronizeItems(NameValueCollection postCollection)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxEditors.ASPxComboBox.LoadPostData(NameValueCollection postCollection)
at DevExpress.Web.ASPxClasses.ASPxWebControl.LoadPostDataInternal(NameValueCollection postCollection, Boolean raisePostDataEvent)

But still do not know where the issue is. So started again looking into code step-by-step and I have found something. The items I am adding to ASPxComboBox is the issue.

aspx

javascript

var dataItems:
        [
          ["Item1","Available"],
["Item2","Available"],
["Item3","Available"],
["Item4","Available"],
["Item5","NotAvailable"],
["Item6","Available"]];
var itemid = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < dataItems.length; i++) {
 var dataItem = dataItems[i];
 if(dataItem[1] == "Available"){
   ClientCmbData.AddItem(dataItem, itemid++);
}
}

The issue occurs at ClientCmbData.AddItem(dataItem, itemid++), instead of ClientCmbData.AddItem(dataItem[0], itemid++);

So data passed in for ASPxComboBox items text value is invalid and hence parsing fails. That's it problem solved.



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