How to return anonymous types from .Net 3.5 methods or how to cast objects to anonymous types
I have found this great link in Tomáš Petříček's blog which gives a very simple and elegant solution to casting to an anonymous type.
Short story shorter:
So simple! You see that the objOfTypeT parameter is never used, but the type infered from it is!
Update:
Correct usage:Cast(obj,anonObj)
Incorrect usage:Cast(obj,anonObj.GetType())
Short story shorter:
// Cast method - thanks to type inference when calling methods it
// is possible to cast object to type without knowing the type name
T Cast<T>(object obj, T objOfTypeT)
{
return (T)obj;
}
So simple! You see that the objOfTypeT parameter is never used, but the type infered from it is!
Update:
Correct usage:Cast(obj,anonObj)
Incorrect usage:Cast(obj,anonObj.GetType())
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