cast the Parent object to Child object in C#

Question

Hi i want to cast the Parent object to Child object in C#

public class Parent
{
    public string FirstName {get; set;}
    public string LastName {get; set;         


        

Answer 1

Another way to approach this solution is to have the Parent control the copy logic and Child will pass the copy source into the base constructor.

e.g. iterating on Avner's solution

public class Parent
{
    public string FirstName {get; set;}
    public string LastName {get; set;}
    public string City {get; set;}

    public Parent()
    {
    }

    public Parent(Parent copyFrom)
    {
        this.FirstName = copyFrom.FirstName;
        this.LastName = copyFrom.LastName;
        this.City = copyFrom.City;
    }
}

public class Child : Parent
{
    public string PhoneNumber {get; set;}
    public string MobileNumber {get; set;}

    public Child (Parent parentToCopy) : base(parentToCopy)
    {
    } 
}