which is faster convert or directcast

[Brian Henry]

Which is faster or considered the better way to do this.

I have a object that holds a date...

Convert.ToDate(object)

or Directcast(object,DateTime)

? Thanks

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Brian,

Because it are less characters to type

CDate(Object)

One of the extras of VBNet is that it has a lot of powerfull conversion
methods.

Cor

 

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

DirectCast is faster, but it assumes you know the Type at runtime though.
For example,

MyEventHandler( Sender as Object , e as EventArgs )
// 'Sender' Cannot be evaluated as a type until runtime, so this assumes
this is the correct type.


Regards

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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Terry,

Where did you been, I thought he has taken hollidays.

I even answered an hour ago a question about "proper case" which I always
leave for you.

One of the message from you I saw in this newsgroup where you had a
(friendly) discussion about that with Herfried. Was something about Correct
case I thought.



Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Which is faster or considered the better way to do this.

I have a object that holds a date...

Convert.ToDate(object)

or Directcast(object,DateTime)

Start "ILDASM" and take a look at the IL that is generated for both of
the methods. The implementation if 'ToDate' can be found here:

<URL:http://sharedsourcecli.sscli.net/so...=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>

 

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

Sorry, it was just another method !


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