Are implicity/explicit conversion methods inherited in C#?

Question

I\'m not sure what I\'m doing wrong here. I have a generic class, which is basically a glorified integer, with a few methods for certain string formatting, as well as into/from

Answer 1

The reason

Derived d = (int)3;

does not work is because the type Derived does not exactly match the return value of the operator Base as is required to invoke this operator. Notice that you haven't provided any conversion operators that contain the code new Derived(...), so it is not surprising that you can't make new Derived instances this way.

Note, however, that the opposite conversion

Derived v = ...;
string s = (string)v;

will work fine (as if it were "inherited", although this is not really inheritance due to the static keyword).