Get all items of a certain type from a List of abstract type

Question

I have a List<> of abstract objects that contains different types of objects. I am trying to grab all the items of a certain type and set th

Answer 1

Use the OfType extension method:

var typeAList = myAbstractItems.OfType().ToList();

From the documentation...

The OfType(IEnumerable) method returns only those elements in source that can be cast to type TResult.