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So I came across a need to create a base class that accepted two generics one would be a concrete class and the other would be the interface to that class. The reason for the need to include both as generics is that I was delegating my concrete implementation to Windows Azure.

So, Azure will use my concrete class to store my data and I will retrieve it and pop it into my interface. A problem came up where I could not convert a list of one generic type (concrete) to another (interface).

However I have just discovered a way to convert between two generic lists. What this means is that I can tell azure about my concrete class and it will go ahead and persist my data to the cloud. At the same time I can also expose only the Interface of my concrete implementation to the rest of the system. This means that I can keep all of my instantiation safe and sound in factories where they belong, and also in Azure. :)
 Anyway, If you want to Convert One Generic List to Another Generic List using c# then I hope the following code will give you somewhere to begin.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace GenericListCastingTest
{
    class GenericBoxClass<T, I> where T:I
    {
        private List<T> listT;

        public IList<I> getSome() {
            IList<I> list = listT.ConvertAll(x => (I)x);
            return list;
        }

        public void setSome(List<T> value) {
            this.listT = value;
        }
    }
}

If you want to play around with the source code for my tests on this code please check out http://compilr.com/IDE/32145

Posted by Siriquelle
Category: c#, csharp