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• What's the difference between "as" and "cast" operators?

  Most people will tell you that the difference between " (Alpha) bravo " and " bravo as Alpha " is that the former throws an exception if the conversion fails, whereas the latter returns null. Though this is correct, and this is the most obvious difference, Read More... Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:36 AM by Eric Lippert | 34 Comments Filed under: C#, Conversions, What's The Difference?, cast operator

• Representation and Identity

  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 | 20 Comments Filed under: Performance, C#, Code Generation, Conversions, Covariance and Contravariance, Language Design, cast operator