Casting via generic?

[Brett Romero]

Is there a way to get a generic type and use it to cast an "object"?
For example:

SomeClass<T>{}

Used as:
SomeClass<MyClasssc = new SomeClass<MyClass>();

I'd like to get MyClass as a type out of sc and do this:

(sc.GenericType)SomeObject;

or what ever that syntax will look like. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brett

[John B]

Brett Romero wrote:

Is there a way to get a generic type and use it to cast an "object"?
For example:

SomeClass<T>{}

Used as:
SomeClass<MyClasssc = new SomeClass<MyClass>();

I'd like to get MyClass as a type out of sc and do this:

(sc.GenericType)SomeObject;

or what ever that syntax will look like. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Brett

The question is why?

You could do something like:
MyGeneric<MyClassgen = new MyGeneric<MyClass>();
MyClass converted = gen.Convert(myObject);

This would require that myObject can be converted to MyClass or you use
the as operator.

JB

[Barry Kelly]

"Brett Romero" <ac*****@cygen.comwrote:

Is there a way to get a generic type and use it to cast an "object"?
For example:

SomeClass<T>{}

Used as:
SomeClass<MyClasssc = new SomeClass<MyClass>();

I'd like to get MyClass as a type out of sc and do this:

(sc.GenericType)SomeObject;

or what ever that syntax will look like. Any suggestions?

Sure - create a generic method, and cast inside that:

void Foo<T>(SomeClass<Tsc)
{
(T) someObject
}

-- Barry

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