When you use implicit or explicit conversion operators, you don’t have to write cumbersome methods to convert an instance of one type to another. The code is much more straightforward.

C# and VB Data Conversion in a World of Cruel Users. While Visual Basic is a bit more forgiving with data conversions, you'll need to jump through some hoops to do similar conversions in C#. By Tim ...

As a bonus - the Google Gemini 1.5-Pro model has written the class for us and implemented method overloading to handle both string and integer comparisons. Example #2 - FoxPro empty() ...