How to cast object to type described by Type class?

Question

I have a object:

ExampleClass ex = new ExampleClass();

And:

Type TargetType

I would like to cast ex to ty

Answer 1

Object o = (TargetType) ex;

This code is useless. You might have a type on the right but it's still only an object on the left side. You can't use functionality specific to TargetType like this.

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This is how you can invoke a method of an unknown object of a given type:

object myObject = new UnknownType();
Type t = typeof(UnknownType); // myObject.GetType() would also work
MethodInfo sayHelloMethod = t.GetMethod("SayHello");
sayHelloMethod.Invoke(myObject, null);

With this UnknownType class:

class UnknownType
{
    public void SayHello()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello world.");
    }
}