On 01/01/03 Artur Karazniewicz wrote: > ValidatorAttribute[] validators = > (ValidatorAttribute[])Attribute.GetCustomAttributes(fieldInfo, > typeof(ValidatorAttribute)); > > this probably works on windows (mcs). This is strange a bit - since > Attribute.GetCustomAttributes returns Attribute[] - and > looks like mcs/.NET casts Attribute[] to ValidatorAttribute[] > (I'm new to C# - i'm not sure maybe this type of cast > is allowed in .NET - i mean mcs/.NET casts all elements of array > of Attribute to array of subtype of Attribyte (ValidatorAttribute in > this case)). mcs/mono throws System.InvalidCastException. [...]
On 01/01/03 A Rafael D Teixeira wrote: > I use array casting a lot: because that is the way to get fixed-size arrays > from arraylists, assembled element by element, with method ToArray(). So it > is certainly a valid cast on C#, and mcs must allow it. It's not a mcs issue, but a runtime one. GetCustomAttributes (..., attributeType) returns an array of the given type, not simply an array of Attribute. It's fixed in cvs now. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
