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I don't believe this has anything to do with casting.

There are two issues with the code you show:

auto msg =  std::make_shared<std_msgs::msg::UInt16();

This line is missing the closing > (after UInt16), and:

msg->data = statuswoord;

this can't work.

The field data is of type uint16 in the ROS 2 msg IDL (see here), which gets converted to a std::uint16_t for C++ (refer to About ROS 2 interfaces: Message description specification - Fields - Field types), which is a short unsigned int on amd64 and many other architectures.

The statuswoord variable is of type std_msgs::msg::UInt16.

You cannot assign a std_msgs::msg::UInt16 to a variable of type std::uint16_t.

To make this work, you'll have to change the type of statuswoord to std::uint16_t.

I don't believe this has anything to do with casting.

There are two issues with the code you show:

auto msg =  std::make_shared<std_msgs::msg::UInt16();

This line is missing the closing > (after UInt16), and:

msg->data = statuswoord;

this can't work.

The field data is of type uint16 in the ROS 2 msg IDL (see here), which gets converted to a std::uint16_t for C++ (refer to About ROS 2 interfaces: Message description specification - Fields - Field types), which is a short unsigned int on amd64 and many other architectures.

The statuswoord variable is of type std_msgs::msg::UInt16.

You cannot assign a std_msgs::msg::UInt16 to a variable of type std::uint16_t.

To make this work, you'll have to change the type of statuswoord to std::uint16_t.

Is there a guide somewhere on casting all the std_msgs ?

I don't believe this has anything to do with casting.

There are two issues with the code you show:

auto msg =  std::make_shared<std_msgs::msg::UInt16();

This line is missing the closing > (after UInt16), and:

std_msgs::msg::UInt16 statuswoord;
msg->data = statuswoord;

this can't work.

The field data is of type uint16 in the ROS 2 msg IDL (see here), which gets converted to a std::uint16_t for C++ (refer to About ROS 2 interfaces: Message description specification - Fields - Field types), which is a short unsigned int on amd64 and many other architectures.

The statuswoord variable is of type std_msgs::msg::UInt16.

You cannot assign a std_msgs::msg::UInt16 to a variable of type std::uint16_t.

To make this work, you'll have to change the type of statuswoord to std::uint16_t.