Casting Vs Parsing ?

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I am reading a BOOK about c# and i have come across some kinda weird concepts,
at the time i am confused about Casting and Parsing. I know that Casting and Parsing are helping me to achieve the same thing but.
1) When i use eachone?
2) Whats their differences?

Simple examples would be usefull

Thanks in advance Black Hat

Posted 20-Jun-15 23:12pm

GeorgeZiozas

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-20T23:43:00

Casting is changing the logical type of a value from one type to another, and (normally) doesn't alter information (exceptions exist for casting between number types: double to int for example will throw away data to the left of the decimal point, int to byte would throw away all large values and effectively take the modulus of the original integer and 256). You cannot cast from one type to another unless there one is derived from the other, or a specific cast operator have been defined which takes the two types. For example, you can't cast from a string "1234" to an integer 1234

Parsing is the process of converting the string representation of a type into an instance of the type: so if the user types the string "1234" into a text box and you want to multiply it my two, you parse the string to an integer, and you can then multiply the integer value and get 2468 as a result.
Parse methods exist for many standard types: int, short, byte, float, double, DateTime, TimeSpan, etc.