Type Casting in C#

Type Casting is a concept of converting one data type into another data type.C# supports two types of type casting. They are..

1. Implicit Type Casting
2. Explicit Type Casting

C # supports three types of explicit type castings: They are

1. C++ style of type casting
• Eg.,: int i = 100;
         byte b = (byte) i;
2. Parsing: Parse () is used to convert string data type into any data type.
E.g.: int i = int.Parse (txtName.Text);
3. Converting: Convert is used to convert any data type into any required data type.
E.g.: Convert.ToInt32();

Methods of Convert class:

• Convert.ToChar()
• Convert.ToByte()
• Convert.ToFloat()
• Convert.ToINT16()    //for Short Int
• Convert.ToINT32()   //for int
• Convert.ToINT64()   //for long