[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Casting

[Pierre Greborio]

Hi,
to transform a structure to array of byte[] I am using the following
procedure:

public static unsafe byte[] StructToByte(MySimpleStruct simpleStruct)
{
  byte[] arr = new byte[
System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(simpleStruct) ];
  fixed( byte* parr = arr )
  {
    *((MySimpleStruct*)parr) = simpleStruct;
  }
  return arr;
}

in order to keep it more generic, I can change the parameter to
ValueType. The problem raises on the casting:

*((MySimpleStruct*)parr) = simpleStruct;

Is it possible to make somwthing like a dynamic_cast ?

Thanks
Pierre

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Pierre Greborio
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