Casting Generic Types

Public Function CastToT(Of T)(ByVal GenericType(Of Object) data) As GenericType(Of T)开发者_开发技巧
   Return DirectCast(data, GenericType(Of T))
End Function

The above clearly does not work. Is there any way to perform this cast if I know that all objects inside data are in fact of Type T?

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This is not possible, except for interfaces.

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No, you cannot cast it directly. Presumably your GenericType is some kind of a container. You will just have to create a new instance of GenericType(Of T) and copy the contents into it, casting each object from Object to T. If GenericType was a System.Collections.List(Of T) then LINQ makes this very easy.