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You would think there would be a way using DirectCast, TryCast, CType etc but all of them seem to choke on it e.g.:
CType("Yes", Boolean)
You get:
System.InvalidCastException –
Conversion from string “Yes” to type
‘Boolean’ is not valid.
If you think about it, “yes” cannot be converted to bool because it is a language and context specific string.
“Yes” is not synonymous with true (especially when your wife says it…!). For things like that you need to convert it yourself; “yes” means “true”, “mmmm yeeessss” means “half true, half false, maybe”, etc.