difference between Casting and Parsing

Casting is changing the type of the variable.

Parsing is 'examining' the string and assigning its logical value to some variable.


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What is the difference bewtween x.ToString() and (String) x?

x.ToString() will try to call ToString() on the object x.

(String) x will try to cast x to string, and will fail if x isn't string.