int.TryParse = null if not numeric?
is there some way of return null if it can't parse a string to int? with: public .... , string? categoryID) { int.TryParse(categoryID, out categoryID); getting "cannot convert from 'out string' to 'out int' what to do? EDIT: No longer relevant because of asp.net constraints is the way to solve problem /M First of all, why are you trying to parse a string to an int and stick the result back into a string? The method signature is bool int.TryParse(string, out int) so you have to give a variable of type int as second argument. This also means that you won't get null if parsing fails, instead the