Casting object to get at contents?

Matt Funke

Please forgive me if this is a simple question -- I'm pretty new to C#.

Here's a quick code snippet that tries to take advantage of the ClearQuest API:

ClearQuestOleServer.SessionClass cqSession = new ClearQuestOleServer.SessionClass();
cqSession.UserLogon(login, password, dbName, (int)ClearQuestConstants.SessionType.AD_PRIVATE_SESSION, "");
object cqEntities = cqSession.GetEntityDefNames();

Now, when I run through this in the debugger and watch cqEntities, I can see that it's an array of strings (the "Type" field even claims that it's an "object {object[]}" type, with each item within it an "object {string}" type), but C# won't let me cast cqEntities as a string[], nor will it let me use cqEntities in a foreach (since it's not enumerable). What can I do to get at the stringy contents?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

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Kirtan Patel17y ago
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Friend, you need to write like below

object[] cqEntities = cqSession.GetEntityDefNames();

OR Try Casting Like below

string[] cqEntities = (string[])cqSession.GetEntityDefNames();

then you can iterate through foreach loop .

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Matt Funke17y ago
It liked the first option, but not the second one; it balked at casting the procedure's return value to a string[], for some reason. I can still use Convert.ToString() on each of the object[]s, though, so no worries.

Thanks for your help!
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