Get all items of a certain type from a List of abstract type

Question

I have a List<> of abstract objects that contains different types of objects. I am trying to grab all the items of a certain type and set th

Answer 1

Another way you could do this is using the OfType() method:

var typeAList = myAbstractItems.OfType().ToList();

This method basically performs the following operation:

var typeAList = myAbstractItems.Where(i=>i is itemTypeA).Select(i=>i as itemTypeA).ToList();

Keep in mind that this will fail if any element of the source collection is a null reference.