http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen/archive/2008/07/22/casting-and-converting-in-visual-basic.aspxWhen I wrote the “What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write in VB” post, I had a log of feedback and conversations around conversions and casting. There are a number of casting and conversion operators in Visual Basic including three general purposeenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/kathleen/archive/2008/07/22/casting-and-converting-in-visual-basic.aspx#1641866Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:05:46 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1641866int19h<p>&gt; The C# parentheses style cast does an implicit widening cast</p> <p>No, it does not - it does an explicit widening cast, by definition (since the cast is explicit in the code!).</p> <p>What you probably meant there is that C# cast operator does both proper casts, and value conversions.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1641866" width="1" height="1">