Cannot implicitly convert type MyClassContainer<T> to MyClassContainer<MyClass>

Question

I've got this classes:

public class MyClassContainer<T> where T:MyClass
{
    private List<T> _classList = new List<T>();

    public MyClassContainer(params MyClass[] myClasses)
    {
        for (int i = 0 ; i < myClasses.Length; ++i)
        {
              myClasses[i].container = this; // ERROR: Cannot implicitly cast...
              _classList.Add(myClasses[i]);
        }
    }
    ...
}

public abstract MyClass: IMyclass
{
    public MyClassContainer<MyClass> container
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
    ...
}

That code has an error in this line myClasses[i].container = this;. It said:

Cannot implicitly convert type MyClassContainer<T> to MyClassContainer<MyClass>

What did I do wrong here? Thanks.

PS: I'm not used to using generics so it's probably because of that although I don't know why it went wrong.

Answer 1

Try using as instead of cast

myClasses[i].container = this as MyClassContainer<MyClass>;