Normally casting should be avoided if possible and when casting is necessary, use the as-operater and check the result for null! But sometimes a plain cast seems to be valid and necessary and when this is the case, I absolutely hate to type the parenthesis. So my new little friend is this extension method:
public static class CastExtension
{
public static T Cast<T>(this object obj)
{
return (T) obj;
}
}
instead of:
((IBar) foo).DoSomething();
you can now trade two parenthesis for two angle brackets:
foo.Cast<IBar>().DoSomething().
Doesn't seem to be much of a difference, but it types much nicer!
