IDictionary, Dictionary?

You can only re-cast the outermost interface/class name, not the generic parameters. The reason your second cast doesn't work is the same reason you can't cast from one array type to another even if you can cast the "contained" objects. Here's why.

The behavior is related to the as keyword in C#. A Dictionary is not the same thing as an IDictionary.

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