Attempting to deserialize a stream to List<T> (or any other type) and am failing with the error:

The type arguments for method 'Foo.Deserialize<T>(System.IO.Stream)' cannot be inferred from the usage. Try specifying the type arguments explicitly.

This fails:

public static T Deserialize<T>(this Stream stream)
{
    BinaryFormatter bin = new BinaryFormatter();
    return (T)bin.Deserialize(stream);
}

But this works:

public static List<MyClass.MyStruct> Deserialize(this Stream stream)
{
    BinaryFormatter bin = new BinaryFormatter();
    return (List<MyClass.MyStruct>)bin.Deserialize(stream);
}

or:

public static object Deserialize(this Stream stream)
{
    BinaryFormatter bin = new BinaryFormatter();
    return bin.Deserialize(stream);
}

Is it possible to do this without casting, e.g. (List<MyStruct>)stream.Deserialize()?