Operators

An operator is a symbol that tells the compiler to perform

specific mathematical or logical manipulations. C# is rich
in built-in operators and provides the following type of
operators:
1. Arithmetic Operators
2. Relational Operators
3. Logical Operators
4. Bitwise Operators
5. Assignment Operators
6. Misc Operators
Arithmetic Operators
Assume if A = 60; and B = 13; now in binary format they will be as
follows:
A = 0011 1100 B = 0000 1101
A&B = 0000 1100 A^B = 0011 0001
A|B = 0011 1101 ~A = 1100 0011
C# type conversions
Type Casting (or) Conversion: Type casting (or) conversion is to convert data of one type to data
of another type.
It is often required in C#; type conversion is of two types as shown in figure:

Implicit Conversion:
compiler converts one type of data into another type of data automatically
In implicit casting, conversion always takes place from lower to higher
Implicit is always under control of CLR
example of implicit conversion
short a = 20; //Implicit conversion
int b = a;
Explicit Conversion:
data of one type is converted explicitly to another type with the help of some
pre-defined functions
there may be data loss in this process because the conversion is forceful.
These are some of the conversions that cannot be made implicit:
int to short
int to uint
uint to int
float to int
C#.Net supports following types of Explicit Type Casting.
1. C++ Style Type Casting
2. Converting
3. Parsing

1. C++ Style Type Casting:

syntax for C++ style type casting.
datatype1 v1;
datatype2 v2= (datatype2) v1;

Note: The type in parentheses is the target data type. There may be loss of data in
casting process if you are casting to a smaller type.
Here is an example showing casting:
int i = 257;
255
byte sal = (byte)i;
1
// gets max value of byte
Console.WriteLine(byte.MaxValue.ToString());
//here possible for loosing the data
Console.WriteLine(sal);
Console.ReadLine();

2. Converting:
Convert is a pre-defined class.
Working with convert class is called as converting.
Methods of Convert class:
1. Convert.ToByte();
2. Convert.ToChar();
3. Convert.ToBoolean();
4. Convert.ToDateTime();
5. Convert.ToInt16();
6. Convert.ToInt32();
7. Convert.ToInt64();
Note: There is also method to convert between numeric values and strings in C#;
int x = 20; // x has been converted to string and its value will be as string '20' now
string str = x.ToString();
Parsing:
As per C#.Net all the datatypes are pre-defined structures.
Structure is a collection of methods.
Every datatype contains a set of methods as maxvalue, minvalue, parse(), Tostring()
string str = "20";
// Now the value of y is int '20
int y = int.parse(str);
using System;
class Program
{ a is less than 20
static void Main(string[] args) value of a is : 10
{ /* local variable definition */
int a = 10;
/* check the boolean condition using if statement */
if (a < 20) /* if condition is true then print the following */
Console.WriteLine("a is less than 20");
Console.WriteLine("value of a is : {0}", a);
Console.ReadLine(); }}}