System.Convert Methods

LINQ to SQL does not support the following Convert methods.

• Versions with an IFormatProvider parameter.

• Methods that involve char arrays or byte arrays:

  • FromBase64CharArray

  • ToBase64CharArray

  • FromBase64String

  • ToBase64String

• The following methods:

  • public static <Type2> To<Type2>(<Type1> value); where

    Type1 and Type2 are each one of sbyte, uint, ulong, or ushort.

  • C#:

    int To<int type>(string value, int fromBase),

    ToString(... value, int toBase)

  • Visual Basic:

    Function To(Of [Numeric])(value as String, fromBase As Integer)

    As [Numeric], ToString( value As …, toBase As Integer)

  • IsDBNull

  • GetTypeCode

  • ChangeType

See also

• Data Types and Functions