i have a generic class

Public Class ACollection(Of T)
    Inherits BindingList(Of T)

where BaseDataClass is declared mustinherit

i then have some code that loadss the collection

With oSQLDR ' a datareader
                If .HasRows Then
                    Do While .Read = True

                        'Create new instance of appropriate businees object
then populate
                        Dim o As Object = Me.AddNew
                        busObject = CType(o, IDataClass)
                        busObject.clientConnection = Me.ClientConnection
                        busObject.Populate(oSQLDR)
                    Loop
                End If
            End With

this all works fine

however if i change this collection to

Public Class ACollection(Of BaseCLass)

how, when using AddNew in the above code do i get addnew to add the correct
type of object (which inherits from BaseClass)

guyy

I believe you need to change your  line
    Dim o as Object = Me.AddNew
to
    Dim o as T = Me.AddNew

Jim Wooley

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