Casting a non-generic type to a generic one
- by John Sheehan
I've got this class:
class Foo {
public string Name { get; set; }
}
And this class
class Foo<T> : Foo {
public T Data { get; set; }
}
Here's what I want to do:
public Foo<T> GetSome() {
Foo foo = GetFoo();
Foo<T> foot = (Foo<T>)foo;
foot.Data = GetData<T>();
return foot;
}
What's the easiest way to convert Foo to Foo<T>? I can't cast directly InvalidCastException) and I don't want to copy each property manually (in my actual use case, there's more than one property) if I don't have to. Is a user-defined type conversion the way to go?
