Question

I am trying to use the AS keyword with an unknown type. Here is my code:

public GetData(Type MyType, string CSVPath)
{
    var engine = new FileHelperEngine(MyType);

    try
    {
        _Data = engine.ReadFile(CSVPath) as MyType;  //error here
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Error occured: " + ex.Message);
    }
}

as you can see in this code I am getting an error were MyType is. Is there a better way to do this

Answer 1

Use a generic method instead of passing in a Type as a parameter:

public void GetData<T>(string CSVPath)
{
    var engine = new FileHelperEngine(typeof(T));
    _Data = engine.ReadFile(CSVPath) as T;
    if (_Data != null)
    {
        //correct type, do the rest of your stuff here
    }
}