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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:45:19+00:00

I have a class that implements IEnumerable , but doesn’t implement IEnumerable<T> . I

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I have a class that implements IEnumerable, but doesn’t implement IEnumerable<T>. I can’t change this class, and I can’t use another class instead of it. As I’ve understood from MSDN LINQ can be used if class implements IEnumerable<T>. I’ve tried using instance.ToQueryable(), but it still doesn’t enable LINQ methods. I know for sure that this class can contain instances of only one type, so the class could implement IEnumerable<T>, but it just doesn’t. So what can I do to query this class using LINQ expressions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use Cast<T>() or OfType<T> to get a generic version of an IEnumerable that fully supports LINQ.

    Eg.

    IEnumerable objects = ...;
IEnumerable<string> strings = objects.Cast<string>();

    Or if you don’t know what type it contains you can always do:

    IEnumerable<object> e = objects.Cast<object>();

    If your non-generic IEnumerable contains objects of various types and you are only interested in eg. the strings you can do:

    IEnumerable<string> strings = objects.OfType<string>();
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