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Convert and format numbers to string

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Convert and format numbers to string

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- [Instructor] Strings are an important type for most applications. String conversion looks different from the numeric-to-numeric conversions. When converting from a number to a string, use the ToString method. All data types, including the numeric types have the ToString method. When converting from a string to a number, use the Parse or TryParse methods. All numeric data types have these methods. We'll look at Parse in the next video. Here's a quick review of converting between numeric types. Check out line 85. We can use the .NET Convert class to explicitly convert from an integer to a double. The syntax is similar on line 86 where we convert from a double to an integer. For number to number, you can find all the conversion tools in the Convert class. Now let's look at how to convert a number type to a string. The top three examples, string one, two and three are using implicit conversion to a string. It's a…

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