Asp.Net - Can a LinkButton.CommandArgument be typed?

Question

Okay so given a LinkButton inside a the ItemTemplate of a Repeater declared like this -

<asp:LinkButton ID="restrictionDelete" runat="server" CssClass="restrictionDelete" Text="Delete..."
                OnCommand="lnkDeleteRestriction_Command" CommandName="Delete" CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItem %>"></asp:LinkButton>

Now,..the repeater is being bound to a list of Restriction objects so when the lnkDeleteRestriction_Command is fired I'm expecting that I can cast the CommandEventArgs.CommandArgument which is an object to my Restriction type. This doesn't seem to be so,..I just get the fully qualified type name as a string.

Can I receive a typed command argument at all and if not, why is it an object?

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

Yes, and it was probably calling ToString to get it to the string, storing the incorrect value.