Convert string to int

[Chris]

I am having an issue with a conversion.  I have a Telerik RadMenu loading via a Linq to Sql class.  I am then trying to invoke a onclick event on a menu item.  I am trying to pass the menu item field id as a parameter. See code below.

The problem is, the idProjects is an int and @linkId is a string.  I get an error that says @linkId cannot be implicitly converted from a string to an int. How can i make this work?


            string linkId = RadMenu1.DataFieldID.ToString();

            SundownDataContext dc = new SundownDataContext();
            var q = (from projects in dc.GetTable<ProjectImage>()
                     where projects.idProjects = @linkId
                     select new
                     {

                         Title = projects.projTitle,
                         ImageURL = projects.projImage
                     }).FirstOrDefault();
            Label1.Text = (q != null) ? q.Title : "Not Found";
            Image1.ImageUrl = q.ImageURL;