Convert.Coerce(Object, Object) Method

Definition

Converts the specified value to the specified type.

This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.

public:
 static System::Object ^ Coerce(System::Object ^ value, System::Object ^ type);
public static object Coerce (object value, object type);
static member Coerce : obj * obj -> obj
Public Shared Function Coerce (value As Object, type As Object) As Object

Parameters

value
Object

The value to convert to a new type.

type
Object

The type to convert value to.

Returns

value converted to type.

Remarks

This method does not allow conversions that cause a loss of information, such as converting 1.5 to an integer.

Applies to