To make a string from a number or a number from a string, you can use the Convert methods. You can usually find the right one by simply typing “Convert” and a dot in the development environment, and the system will provide you with a list of likely methods.
Any number you type into your program is automatically of type int if it has no fractional part or type double if it does. If you want to indicate that it is a different type, you can use various suffix and prefix characters.