C#: Dynamic runtime cast

Question

I would like to implement a method with the following signature

dynamic Cast(object obj, Type castTo);

Anyone know how to do that? obj defi

Answer 1

The opensource framework Dynamitey has a static method that does late binding using DLR including cast conversion among others.

dynamic Cast(object obj, Type castTo){
    return Dynamic.InvokeConvert(obj, castTo, explict:true);
}

The advantage of this over a Cast called using reflection, is that this will also work for any IDynamicMetaObjectProvider that has dynamic conversion operators, ie. TryConvert on DynamicObject.