Question

public class Currency{
    private Code {get;set;}
    public Currency(string code){
      this.Code = code;
    }
    //more methods here
}

I want to be able to make my object castable

string curr = "USD";
Currency myType = (Currency)curr;

I know that I can do it with the contructor, but I have usecase where I need to cast without initializing the object…

I also believe that ill need a function like FromString() to do it
Thanks.

Answer 1

Add this method to your Currency class:

public static explicit operator Currency(String input) 
{
    return new Currency(input);
}

And call it like this:

Currency cur = (Currency)"USD";