CastNETObject
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NETLink`
CastNETObject
CastNETObject[obj,type]
casts the specified object to a different type.
Details and Options
- To use CastNETObject, you first need to load .NET/Link using Needs["NETLink`"].
- The cast must be valid, meaning that the object must be an instance of the given class or interface type.
- The type can be specified by a fully qualified type name or as a NETType expression.
- There are two main situations where it is used: "upcasting" an object to call an inherited version of a method that is hidden by a version of the same method declared as "new" in a class lower in the inheritance hierarchy, or a "raw" COM object (these appear as << NETObject[System.__ComObject] >> or << NETObject[COMInterface[...]] >>) that can be successfully cast to a certain managed type
- Calling ReleaseNETObject on an object will remove all of that object's casted references as well.