iostreams?

Is there an equivalent of << and/or >> operators for C#?
I just need something easy to use to convert everything to strings. It is really not nice using Convert.ToString(). I don't see the reason by the way why somethings cannot be overloaded, like make MessageBox.Show(int i), MessageBox.Show(string str), MessageBox.Show(DateTime dt) etc etc

All the integral types such as int are overloaded with toString() to display what you want.

so MessageBox.Show(i.toString());

ToString() is automatically called for each type when concatenating strings:

Code:

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int i = 12;
float f = 3.4f;
double d = 5.6;
decimal dm = 7.8M;
System.DateTime dt = System.DateTime.Now;

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show("int: " + i + ", float: " + f  +", double: " + d  +", decimal: " + dm + ", datetime: " + dt);

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lol, I knew there was a simple solution...