Casting...

[RaleTheBlade]

As personal preference, I generally try to avoid casting as much as possible in my code. As such I rarely pass objects to and from methods.

How do you manage this in C# where everything derives from System.Object lol.

Also, C# has a nice little sugar syntax tweak that allows you to do this:

enum Color { Red, Green, Blue };

Color color =  Enum.Parse( typeof( Color ), "Green" ) as Color;

// The value of color is 'Color.Green'.

Notice the "as Color" syntax on the end. I never use it, Im more partial to the C++ way but some developers might find it handy.

EDIT:

Oops, I forgot color was a VALUE type, therefore casting from a reference type to a value type does NOT work with the "as" syntax sugar. However, any reference type to reference type casts will work with it.