Question

According to the Implicit converting Logic which enables something like:

string str = "something";
Object o = str ;

I was expecting that assigning a Dictionary<string, string> to Dictionary<string, Object> would be possible, but this is not the case.

Is it possible to explicity cast the string value to Object without having to iterate through the keyValuePair-items?

EDIT1: replaced all Boxing/Unboxing words with converting and casting as comments and answers mention this isnt Boxing issue.

Thank you all

Answer 1

Typecasting doesn’t help you there but you can convert one to another with LINQ:

Dictionary<string, object> newDict;
newDict = dict.ToDictionary(pair => pair.Key, pair => (object)pair.Value);