VB.Net - Specified Cast is not valid But Debugger showing value

Question

The code i am trying to run is a simple one. get text from a Textbox and display that via MsgBox. now i probably have done this a million times but i get a strange error. The Code is :

 Dim s As String = FromDateTEX.Text.ToString
 MsgBox(s)

I get this error from second line :

System.InvalidCastException: 'Specified cast is not valid.'

Here is the strange part : Debugger shows value for s which is correct. here is the screenshot :

What am i doing wrong here ?

Edit :

Even this code gets the same error :

 MsgBox(“hello”)

Answer 1

Turns out the error was from the above line. LookupEdit 's EditValue was in fact a Short and it needed a Convert to Integer.