Cannot implicitly convert type 'customtype' to 'othercustomtype'

Question

I am new to C#. I have a Persons class and a User class which inherits from the Persons class. I my console I input a users in an array. Then I can add a note to a user that

Answer 1

You need to implement explicit or implicit operator:

class ClassA
{
    public string Property1 { get; set; }

    public static explicit operator ClassB(ClassA classA)
    {
        return new ClassB() { Property2 = classA.Property1 };
    }
}

class ClassB
{
    public string Property2 { get; set; }
}

var a = new ClassA() {Property1 = "test"};
ClassB b = (ClassB)a;
Console.WriteLine(b.Property2); // output is "test"