Copies the elements of the ICollection to a new array of the specified element type. - CSharp System.Collections

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Copies the elements of the ICollection to a new array of the specified element type.

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using System.Reflection;
using System.Collections;
using System;

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
        /// Copies the elements of the <see cref="ICollection"/> to a 
        /// new array of the specified element type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="inputCollection">The <see cref="System.Collections.ICollection"/> instance to be converted.</param>
        /// <param name="elementType">The element <see cref="Type"/> of the destination array to create and copy elements to</param>
        /// <returns>An array of the specified element type containing copies of the elements of the <see cref="ICollection"/>.</returns>
        public static Array ToArray(ICollection inputCollection, Type elementType)
        {
            Array array = Array.CreateInstance(elementType, inputCollection.Count);
            inputCollection.CopyTo(array, 0);
            return array;
        }
}

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