.Net Parse versus Convert

Question

In .Net you can read a string value into another data type using either .parse or Convert.To.

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Answer 1

There is also the DirectCast method which you should use only if you are sure what the type of the object is. It is faster, but doesn't do any proper checks. I use DirectCast when I'm extracting values from a loosely typed DataTable when I know the type for each column.