The as operator in C# allows you to explicitly convert the result of an expression to a given reference type or a nullable value type. If the conversion isn’t possible, as returns null.

Null pointer exceptions are no fun. You can avoid them and keep your code clean and maintainable by using these techniques to elegantly handle null values in C#. When working on applications in ...

VB also has a few less well known operators for numeric types: ˆ, Mod, and \. ˆ is the exponent operator, so 3ˆ2 is three squared, which equals 9. 4 ˆ 4 is four to the fourth power, which is 256.