Why does C# && and || operators work the way they do?

Question

here is a tl;dr

I come from a C++ background. && is suppose to check if left side is true and right side is true. what does & have anything to do with th

Answer 1

A perhaps overlooked part of the question here is why doesn't C# automatically cast integers to booleans?

Automatically casting ints to bools (using the rules of C/C++) allow for a accidentally assigning instead of comparing two values. The C# language designers probably wanted to avoid this...

int a, b;
if(a == b)
    { /* They are equal, so execute this code... */ }

if(a = b)
    { /* Were they actually equal? Dunno, but they are now... */ }

or

while(a = b)
    { /* Eternal loop */ }