Converting - Explicit

Also known as Type Casting.
There are a number of different ways we can make an explicit data type conversion.

(Brackets)

Integer to Long

int myInteger; 
long myLong; 
myInteger = 10; 
myLong = (long)myInteger; 
Console.WriteLine(myLong); 

System.Convert

System.BitConverter

as Operator

Object.Parse()

??

int myInt = System.Int32.Parse(mytext); 
decimal myDecimal = System.Decimal.Parse(mytext); 

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