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  I get a fair number of questions about the C# cast operator. The most frequent question I get is: short sss = 123; object ooo = sss; // Box the short. int iii = (int) sss; // Perfectly legal. int jjj = (int) (short) ooo; // Perfectly legal int kkk = (int) Read More... Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 6:46 AM by Eric Lippert | 23 Comments Filed under: Performance, C#, Code Generation, Conversions, Covariance and Contravariance, Language Design, cast operator