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How do I store a collection of ObservableCollection<T> with different types for T?

I have a class ActiveList<T>: ObservableCollection<T> that I wish to store in a dictionary with key of Type, which is the T of ActiveList, something like:

Dictionary<Type, ActiveList<T>>

Of course the dictionary cannot be typed, as it should cater for different types for T. It may help if you know that T is constrained to XTimeEntity, so I could consider making the dictionary:

Dictionary<Type, ActiveList<XTimeEntity>>

but how would I cast an ActiveList<XtimeEntity> to an ActiveList<T> when I want Dictionary[T]?

Solution

  • Is there an Interface all ActiveLists share? Than you could have a Dictionary<Type, IActiveList>. But you would still have to cast the received value.