Network Programming in .NET

Three ways to cast an object to a string .ToString(), as String, and (string), what’s the difference?

((object)1).ToString()  equals "1"
((object)1) as string  equals null
(string)((object)1) throws an exception

Basically, "ToString()" calls a method on "object" or in the closest derived class that overrides the ToString() method.

"As string" performs a cast, but returns null rather than an exception is the cast is not implicitly possible.

(string) peroforms the same cast, but throws an exception on failure.