[RESOLVED] Questions about casting object types...

[mshdsp]

Well, it may cause an exception at runtime of 'Obj' is not an Employee object under the hood. You would be better served using a safe cast on reference types:

object o = new Employee();
// some time later
Employee e = o as Employee;
if ( e != null )
{
    // the cast succeeded
}
else
{
    // the cast failed, 'o' is not of the type 'Employee'
}

Understood. Thanks.