How do I safely cast a System.Object to a `bool` in C#?

Question

I am extracting a bool value from a (non-generic, heterogeneous) collection.

The as operator may only be used with reference types, so it is no

Answer 1

Like this:

if (rawValue is bool) {
    bool value = (bool)rawValue;
    //Do something
} else {
    //It's not a bool
}

Unlike reference types, there's no fast way to try to cast to a value type without two casts. (Or a catch block, which would be worse)