What is the C# equivalent of CType in VB.NET?
I am trying to convert the example provided in MSDN article Creating Dynamic Data Entry User Interfaces to C#, but am stuck at the following code: CType(dq, IUIBuildingBlock).QuestionText = reader("QuestionText") How do I convert the above VB.NET statement to C#? In C#, you can specify a cast by putting the type you want to cast to in parenthesis in front of the reference variable that you want to cast ( (type)instance ). So, to cast the object ( dq ) to the type IUIBuildingBlock , you could use the following code: ((IUIBuildingBlock)dq).QuestionText = reader("QuestionText"); (Note that this