Cast a property to its actual type dynamically using reflection

Question

I need to cast a property to its actual type dynamically. How do I/Can I do this using reflection?

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Answer 1

Having a variable of a specific type is really only useful at compile time, and will not help you at runtime in using it in this way. Try to write the code where you would utilize this... you'll find that it keeps pushing the requirement to know the type to compile time at some level (maybe further up the call chain, but you'll still eventually need to type the concrete type for this to be useful).

One thing to keep in mind, though - if your type is a reference type, the object is still truly the type you've created. It's not like there is a benefit to having the object saved as your type vs. object. This is the beauty of reflection (as well as part of why it works). There really is no reason to try to "change" it's type at runtime in a cast, since it's still going to be an object.