by DuttaluruVijayakumar Updated : Oct 03, 2020 in Articles

What is Type Casting in C#

in this article, we will learn about what is type casting in c# and how to convert data types.

Typecasting nothing but converting data from one form to another form. type casting required when the Right-hand side data type is not equal to Left side data type then we will go for the typecasting concept.

Note: Casting is will be done based on range and not based on size of the data type.

If either byte, short, or char variables are used in an expression they are automatically raised to the rank of int.

using System;
namespace sampleApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int n= 566;
            byte b;
            byte c1, c2, c3;
            c1 = c2 = 10;
            c1 = c2 + c3; //Compilation Error
            c1 = (byte)(c2 + c3);
        }
    }
}

Casting long to float

The given example long to float casting is implicit casting because the range of long is smaller than float and float to long explicit casting is required.

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            float f;
            long lng = 20L;
            f = lng;
            lng = (long)f;
        }
    }

Casting int to decimal

The given below example int(10) to decimal casting is implicit casting because the range of int is decimal than float and decimal to float, float to decimal explicit casting is required.

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            float f;
            decimal dec = 10; //Integer to decimal 
            f = (float)dec;
            dec = (decimal)f;

        }
    }

Note: decimal type of data type should be explicit casting is required for every other data type if required.

Casting int to char

The given example char to int casting is implicit casting because of ASCII code format an int to char explicit casting is required.

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int n;
            char c='0';
            n = c; //Implicit Casting
            c = (char)n; //Explicit Casting
        }
    }

Character: ‘A’ — ‘Z’ ‘a’ — ‘z’ ‘0’ — ‘9’

ASCII : 65 — 90 97 —122 48 — 57

Casting string to others

Casting string to other type is invalid its means String cannot be cast see the given below example

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string str = "s00";
            int n = (int)str; //Invalid- cannot be casted string to int is not allowed
            n = int.Parse(str); //if failes throws, FormatException
            bool bln = int.TryParse(str, out n);
        }
    }

If you want to convert string to another type of data type we need to go for int.parse() or int.Tryparse() methods. Direct casting is not allowed in c#.

Casting int to string

Casting int to string type is invalid its means int directly can not be cast into a string we to required .tostring() method see the given below example

class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            int n = 0;

            string s = n.ToString();

            //s = (string) n //direct Casting int to string is invalid

        }

    }

ToString() in C#:

If you want to convert any other type of data type to string in c# we will use the .tostring() method.

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