Cast Object to Generic List

Question

I have 3 generict type list.

List = new List();
List
 = new List
();
List = new Lis         


        

Answer 1

I ran into same problem - I have a collection which data type is only known at run time and I can't cast it to anything. None of the solutions above worked. Finally I solved it by serializing to JSON and de-serializing back. Of course it's not ideal, but may help someone.

string jsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObject);
jsonString = "{ values:" + jsonString + "}";

JObject j = JObject.Parse(jsonString);

//now we can iterate over the list
foreach (var x in j["values"])
{
    string name = x.ToString();
    ...
}