I have two classes, Person and Reporter. I created, in the Reporter class, explicit operator overloads going both ways, Person to Reporter and Reporter to Person, and it all works as designed. I can explicitly cast:
Person p = new Person();
Reporter r = (Reporter)p;
// works great!
Now I want to do this:
Person[] people = new Person[50];
// some code here to populate the Person array with Person objects, then:
Reporter[] reporters = (Reporter[])people;
// Crashes. I've changed the code so now I can't get the exact error but it is
//something about user defined conversions must be to or from the enclosed type.
I tried creating:
public static explicit override Reporter[](Person[] people)
{
// some code to iterate the Person array and do a deep copy
// to a Reporter array
}
and I got the same error about conversions must be to or from the enclosed type.
Does anyone know if there's a way to create an explicit conversion from one array type to another
Thanks,
Dale Preston
MCAD,MCSE, MCDBA
explicit operator overload for arrays
chaddyb
For purposes of this question, reporter does not inherit from person.
Generics won't work. They won't convert or cast from one type to another and I have two different classes that are related and convertable individually. And the application that led me to this question is v1.1.
Dale
Zaerion
No there isn't. You'll have to assign each array element in a loop.
Daniel Ch. Bloch
And reporter inherits from person right
Also take a look at generics
aw52741
That figures. Well, I don't like arrays anyway. I'll create the custom collection I knew I should have anyway. Then I can create an explicit operator override converting the array type to the custom collection.
Thanks for your help.
Dale