casting to multiple (unknown types) at runtime

Question

I\'m developing a viewer that will be able to open all of the custom documents that we produce via our software. All of the documents inherit from IDocument, but I\'m not su

Answer 1

If you can easily figure out what kind of document it is (ie: it's part of the file header), it might be easiest to have a strategy for deserializing that is specific to each type.