http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/04/20/chained-user-defined-explicit-conversions-in-c-part-three.aspxJeroen Frijters knew the answer to my challenge of last time: how is it that Foo foo = new Foo(); can cause a runtime conversion failure? And how is it that Bar bar = (Bar)(new Baz()); can succeed even if there is no user-defined conversion or built-inen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/04/20/chained-user-defined-explicit-conversions-in-c-part-three.aspx#2221805Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:11:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2221805Charlie Calvert's Community Blog<p>Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 is available for download . Though quite similar to the March CTP in terms</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2221805" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2007/04/20/chained-user-defined-explicit-conversions-in-c-part-three.aspx#2207987Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:49:34 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:2207987Stuart Ballard<p>As you can guess from my &quot;editorialization&quot;, I'd just like to insert a vote for &quot;deprecate/obsolete the whole thing in favor of a sane replacement&quot;.</p> <p>It'd be so very easy to achieve the same result without special runtime/language support.</p> <p>using System.ComInterop;</p> <p>...</p> <p>IMyInterface obj = Interop.New&lt;IMyInterface&gt;();</p> <p>Just a regular old method without any language/runtime level magic.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2207987" width="1" height="1">