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Convert.ToSingle Method (Int64)

Converts the value of the specified 64-bit signed integer to an equivalent single-precision floating point number.

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public static float ToSingle (
	long value
)
public static float ToSingle (
	long value
)
public static function ToSingle (
	value : long
) : float
Not applicable.

Parameters

value

A 64-bit signed integer.

Return Value

A single-precision floating point number equivalent to the value of value.

The following code sample illustrates the conversion of an Int64 to Single, using ToSingle. Note that large Int64 values can cause OverflowException to be thrown.

public void ConvertLongFloat(long longVal) {

    float    floatVal;
    
    // A conversion from Long to float cannot overflow.
    floatVal = System.Convert.ToSingle(longVal);
    System.Console.WriteLine("{0} as a float is {1}", 
            longVal, floatVal);
    
    // A conversion from float to long can overflow.
    try {
        longVal = System.Convert.ToInt64(floatVal);
        System.Console.WriteLine("{0} as a long is {1}", 
            floatVal, longVal);
    }
    catch (System.OverflowException) {
        System.Console.WriteLine(
            "Overflow in float-to-long conversion.");
    }
}

public void ConvertLongFloat(long longVal)
{
    float floatVal;

    // A conversion from Long to float cannot overflow.
    floatVal = System.Convert.ToSingle(longVal);
    System.Console.WriteLine("{0} as a float is {1}", 
        System.Convert.ToString(longVal), 
        System.Convert.ToString(floatVal));

    // A conversion from float to long can overflow.
    try {        
        longVal = System.Convert.ToInt64(floatVal);
        System.Console.WriteLine("{0} as a long is {1}", 
            System.Convert.ToString(floatVal),
            System.Convert.ToString(longVal));
    }
    catch (System.OverflowException exp) {        
        System.Console.WriteLine("Overflow in float-to-long conversion.");
    }
} //ConvertLongFloat

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 1.0
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