Quote Originally Posted by dilettante View Post
Almost.

And stop saying "cast." This is conversion. Repeating a term you heard somwehere because it "sounds whizzy" doesn't fool anyone. Look it up.
Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?

When you "convert" an object from one type to another, that's called type casting, in the case of my post I was referring to casting a DateTime object to a String object. If it's not considered casting as you claim, how come .Net has a DirectCast to "convert" from one data type to another? There's the VB CTyper (CastType) function in the .Net framework too, nothing "whizzy" sounding about that either.