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title: "What is difference between is and as operators in c#?"  
description: "What is difference between is and as operators in c#?"  
author: "Anchal Kesharwani"  
published: 2014-09-20  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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category: "c#"  
tags: [".net", "c#"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is difference between is and as operators in c#?

“is” operator is used to check the compatibility of an object with a given type and it returns the result as Boolean.

“as” operator is used for casting of object to a type or a class.


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