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copied!<blockquote> <p>Any chance to cast this to the anonymous type?</p> </blockquote> <p>Although you can do that but it is highly unreliable. Because whenever you will change your creation of anonymous type your code will suddenly break on other places without a trace.</p> <p>You can read all the downfalls of casting anonymous types in blog by Jon Skeet <a href="https://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/01/09/horrible-grotty-hack-returning-an-anonymous-type-instance.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Also worth reading are the comments by Marc Gravel. </p> <p><strong>Example</strong> of breaking change as discussed in the above blog.</p> <pre><code>using System; static class GrottyHacks { internal static T Cast<T>(object target, T example) { return (T) target; } } class CheesecakeFactory { static object CreateCheesecake() { return new { Fruit="Strawberry", Topping="Chocolate" }; } static void Main() { object weaklyTyped = CreateCheesecake(); var stronglyTyped = GrottyHacks.Cast(weaklyTyped, new { Fruit="", Topping="" }); Console.WriteLine("Cheesecake: {0} ({1})", stronglyTyped.Fruit, stronglyTyped.Topping); } } </code></pre> <p>All good. Now what if you suddenly realise that you need to change CreateCheeseCake to something like this</p> <pre><code>static object CreateCheesecake() { return new { Fruit="Strawberry", Topping="Chocolate", Base = "Biscuit" }; } </code></pre> <p>Then what will happen to your this line</p> <pre><code>var stronglyTyped = GrottyHacks.Cast(weaklyTyped, new { Fruit="", Topping="" }); </code></pre> <p>it won't work anymore.</p>

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