Understanding Conversion Operators
In the previous section we discussed converting between value types and reference types. These kinds of conversions are not the only ones allowed by the .NET Framework. You often need to perform conversions between two value types or two reference types. For example, imagine that you want to represent a number as a text message. In such a case, you need to convert an Integer
into a String
; you could also have an Integer
value that must be passed to a method that instead receives an argument of type Double
. Another common scenario is when you work with user controls in the user interface. Some controls, such as ListBox
and DataGridView
on the Windows side or the DataGrid
on the web side can store any kind of ...
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