Ok, so we know this feature will become horribly abused and nobody’s going to know where the hell methods are defined.  But, come on, you know you love this:

DropDownList cboProfiles;
int  selectedValue= this.cboProfiles.SelectedValue.ToInt();

OR

int  selectedValue=  this.ViewState[“MyKey”].ToInt() ; Courtesy of these trivial extension methods: public static class TypeHelper
{
    public static int ToInt(this string value)
    {
        return Convert.ToInt32(value);
    }
    public static int ToInt(this object value)
    {
        return Convert.ToInt32(value);
    }
} 

Admit it, your looking for a way for your next hit!J