Question

is there a way to cast/convert the currently selected Row in a datagridview to a custom Object?

For example, I’m trying to cast the selected row to an object of type Client, however, I am unable to do so using this method.

DataGridViewSelectedRowCollection rows = dgvClient.SelectedRows;
foreach (DataGridViewRow r in rows)
{
    DataRow myRow = (r.DataBoundItem as DataRowView).Row;
    Client current = (Client)myRow;
}

Answer 1

You can also use implicit and explicit operator
for eg

class Client
{
   public static explicit operator Client(DataRow dr)
   {
      // code to convert from dr to Client
   }
}

Client current = (Client)myRow;

similarly you could overload implicit. With implicit operator you the conversion would take automatically with out casts