Difference between Casting, Parsing and Converting [duplicate]

Answer 1

casting (casting to work the types need to be compatible) Converting between data types can be done explicitly using a cast

static void _Casting()
{
    int i = 10;
    float f = 0;
    f = i;  // An implicit conversion, no data will be lost.
    f = 0.5F;
    i = (int)f;  // An explicit conversion. Information will be lost.
}

parsing (Parsing is conversion between different types:) converts one type to another type can be called as parsing uisng int.parse

int num = int.Parse("500");

traversing through data items like XML can be also called as parsing

When user-defined conversions get involved, this usually entails returning a different object/value. user-defined conversions usually exist between value types rather than reference types, so this is rarely an issue.

converting Using the Convert-class actually just helps you parse it

for more please refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228360%28VS.80%29.aspx