converting a double to a float

How do I cast a double to a float. I can only retrieve a double but I need a float the decrease in accuracy is not important.

I tried ToFloat() but apparently that does not exits.

Any ideas?

 

theres two way i can think of,

Code (csharp):

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2.  
3. YourDouble as float;
4.  

but this one wont work because float is not a null-able type thus can't converted this way but

Code (csharp):

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2. (float)YourDouble
3.  

this will work, i don't know why or how these two conversions are different but this one will work for sure

 

i'll try that thanks, now that I think of this does make sense!

 

As you said "as" can return null - since float cannot be null it won't work.

You use "as" for casting objects when your not 100% sure it will work and don't want to deal with exceptions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cscsdfbt(v=VS.100).aspx

 

System.Convert.ToSingle. (Remember that "float" is an alias for System.Single.)

--Eric