Question

Hi Im stuck on a simple problem

Say I have a class

public Abstract Animal

And I have 2 derived classes

public Cat : Animal
{ 
    public int NumberOfLegs {get;set;}
}

So I passed this to my viewpage

System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage((IEnumerable<Animal>)

In the aspx page
I can’t do this(it won’t even compile). It won’t recognize the NumberOflegs member

foreach (item in Model)

    (Cat)item.NumberOfLegs

Any Idea?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to add a couple of paranthesis to have the cast evaluate before you access the member:

((Cat)item).NumberOfLegs