C# how to dynamically cast an object?
- by JL
I am building a helper object that has a property called Mailer. In reality Mailer can be either a System.Net.Mail.MailMessage or a Mono.System.Net.Mail.MailMessage. So I would preferably only want 1 declaration of mailer.
For example I don't want:
private Mono.Mailing.MailMessage MonoMessage = new Mono.Mailing.MailMessage();
private System.Net.Mail.MailMessage MailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
I would prefer
object mailer;
Then in constructor
switch (software)
{
case EnunInternalMailingSoftware.dotnet:
this.mailer = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
break;
case EnunInternalMailingSoftware.mono:
this.mailer = new Mono.Mailing.MailMessage();
break;
}
The problem is that mailer has no properties at design time. So I can't compile my code.
How can this be fixed, am I taking the right approach. Thanks in advance
