title: C# casting from string to int or int32. Possible?
body: <p>I saw in a blog that you can cast from string to int and something even better dealing with possible null values using (int?). See blog <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/09/20/the-new-c-null-coalescing-operator-and-using-it-with-linq.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>
  
  <p>However, when I try to do it, visual studio complains saying Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'string'.</p>
  
  <p>Is it really possible?
  Or am I doing something wrong?</p>