Casting vs Converting an object toString, when object really is a string

Question

This isn\'t really an issue, however I am curious. When I save a string in lets say an DataRow, it is cast to Object. When I want to use it, I have to cast it ToString. As f

Answer 1

ToString() does not perform a cast by default. Its purpose is to return a string that represents the type (e.g. "System.Object").

If you want to avoid casting you could try to think of an implementation that is strongly typed (using generics, for example) and avoids DataRowObject altogether.