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Convert numeric values

Convert numeric values - Visual Basic Tutorial

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Convert numeric values

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- [Instructor] I'm looking at the code explorer application. Before we look at any of the code, click this Data type - Ranges button. What I've done is written some code that prints out the minimum and maximum allowed values for common Visual Basic data types. So I can look here and see that the maximum value allowed for Short is 32,767. So I can use that to analyze whether or not I can convert to a type. For instance, this UShort, the maximum value is 65,535. That will not fit in a Short. It's same with the Integer and the Long. Now it's obvious that the Long is too big to fit into the Integer. So this is a narrowing conversion to from Long to Int and a widening to go from Int to Long. Now close the application, switch over to Visual Basic and look at the code here in this RunCode3Button_Click handler. I won't go through all the code but I want you to see is that all of the dot net types, the numeric types, have…

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