How to convert from System.Int32 to System.UInt16 in F#

Question

Is there a better (shorter?) way than the following?

let cpucount = System.UInt16.Parse( reader.GetInt32(3).ToString() )

Answer 1

I don't know F#, but you could write Convert.ToUint16(reader.GetInt32(3)).

EDIT: According to MSDN, you can cast by writing uint16 reader.GetInt32(3).

Answer 2

let i = uint16 42

See also

MSDN docs

and the 'casts' section of

What does this C# code look like in F#?