Jul 2, 2013 · What to choose: Cast or Convert for datetimes (Microsoft SQL Server)? I have had a look at the MSDN Specifications. At the first glance it seems there is no difference, except for …

Sep 25, 2008 · Custom implicit/explicit casting: Usually a new object is created. Value Type Implicit: Copy without losing information. Value Type Explicit: Copy and information might be …

Jul 20, 2015 · Casting pointers is usually invalid in C. There are several reasons: Alignment. It's possible that, due to alignment considerations, the destination pointer type is not able to …

I used to think that reinterpret_cast is OK for e.g. casting pointers to and from integer types (like e.g. DWORD_PTR), but to cast from a void* to a BYTE*, isn't static_cast OK? Are there any …

Apr 10, 2021 · Java allows us to cast variables of one type to another as long as the casting happens between compatible data types. For example you can cast a String as an Object and …

Aug 9, 2023 · I am trying to cast (Windows + K) my laptop screen on my TV screen, and the picture is choppy and pixelated whenever there's motion on screen. My laptop is an LG Gram …

It is unnecessary when casting upwards (towards a base class), but when casting downwards it can be used as long as it doesn't cast through virtual inheritance. It does not do checking, …

Jan 27, 2023 · Hello.I've recently installed Windows 11 and now whenever I cast to my TV (as a wireless monitor), Windows only casts picture, but not sound. The sound still goes through my …

Dec 16, 2011 · Casting is very important in database operations, for instance. For example on a parameterized PDO query, there will be a struggle sometimes for the parser to realize it is a …

Casting of an object does NOT change anything; it is just the way the compiler treats it. The only reason to do something like that is to check if the object is an instance of the given class or of …