Casting List<object> to List at runtime

Question

I \'m trying to build a DI container and I \'ve stumbled on to the following problem: I have a method that retrieves a list of registered instances for a given type and I wa

Answer 1

You could create a generic list like this:

public virtual IList Retrieve(Type type)
{
  // ...
  listType = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(new Type[] { type });
  IList list = (IList)Activator.CreateInstance(listType);
  // ...
  return list
}

this list can be casted to IList, because it is one.

You could consider to use IEnumerable and Cast, but then you don't have an instance of a list. I don'^t know how important it is to have one.