Type conversion in C#

Type conversion is basically type casting or converting one type of data to another type. In C#, type casting has two forms:

• Implicit type conversion - these conversions are performed by C# in a type-safe manner. Examples are conversions from smaller to larger integral types and conversions from derived classes to base classes.
• Explicit type conversion - these conversions are done explicitly by users using the pre-defined functions. Explicit conversions require a cast operator.

The following example shows an explicit type conversion:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Practice

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

ConvertAndSize c = new ConvertAndSize();

c.conversion();

              Console.ReadKey();

        }

    }

}

   

class ConvertAndSize

{

  public void conversion()

        {

            double f = 33.33;

            int i;

            // cast double to int.

            i = (int)f;

            Console.WriteLine(i);

}     

  }

Output:

33