Hello, I was looking at the casting functions and the one that had the behavior I wanted most was the shared_polymorphic_cast. I do not want an empty shared_ptr<T> to be created if the cast cannot be performed. I would prefer to have an exception thrown in debug mode and release mode. The problem is that while going through the shared_ptr.hpp, I found a comment on line number 388 just above all the cast conversion functions "// shared_*_cast names are deprecated. Use *_pointer_cast instead." I have not found a *_pointer_cast function that does what I want. The dynamic_pointer_cast does not throw an exception. Is there a good alternative? Should I enforce a standard on my team of using dynamic_pointer_cast along with a run-time check of seeing if an empty shared_ptr<T> was created? Thanks, Bernard