>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>Quite often when I need to compare, say, two values where one is a constant, I need to put (Int16) in front of that constant to avoid a compile error. I am wondering is there a way to somehow automatically make 0 to be Int16 without explicitly boxing it?
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>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>I think you mean 'casting' rather than 'boxing' ?
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>>How are you declaring the constant ?
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>Here is one of the samples (I introduce the constant inline same way as in the VFP code I am translating):
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>DateTime admission_end = this.dtScan.Date.AddDays(Math.Max(admissions, (Int16)1)).AddSeconds(-1);

Generally you could use a literal suffix to override the default data type: http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/CSharpNumericLiterals.aspx

But... while literal suffixes work for most numeric types, short isn't one of them.