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Casting an object to a IList with an abstract type parameter

In my code, I have an object:

object obj = ...


Which I know is of type MyListType, where MyListType is a subclass of IList and T is a subclass of MyAbstractClass. The type parameter of MyListType is constrained so that it is always a subclass of MyAbstractClass.

However, trying to cast obj

MyListType<MyAbstractClass> myList = (MyListType<MyAbstractClass>)obj;


gives a runtime error.

I tried to define an explicit operator

public static explicit operator MyListType<MyAbstractClass>(MyListType<T> list)
{
MyListType<MyAbstractClass> newList = new MyListType<MyAbstractClass>();
foreach(T t in list)
newList.Add((MyAbstractClass) t);
return newList;
}


However, this operator doesn't get used by the cast since obj is an object, not a MyListType. Is there a workaround to successfully perform this cast?

I've looked at this question, but their the list was of an unknown type.

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