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I am trying to get the name of a method on a generic interface. I would expect this to work as the type part would be a valid typeof:
//This does not compile nameof(IGenericInterface<>.Method) //This would compile typeof(IGenericInterface<>) I think this should be valid c#-6.0 or am I missing something or is there a better way to do this. I don't want to use a string for the Method name as if the method is renamed code would break without any build-time errors.
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You can't inherit from the generic type parameter. C# generics are very different from C++ templates. Inheriting from the type parameter requires the class to have a completely different representation based on the type parameter, which is not what happens with .
A generic type is a generic class or interface that is parameterized over types. The following Box class will be modified to demonstrate the concept.
C# allows you to use constraints to restrict client code to specify certain types while instantiating generic types. It will give a compile-time error if you try to instantiate a generic type using a type that is not allowed by the specified constraints.
From the point of view of reflection, the difference between a generic type and an ordinary type is that a generic type has associated with it a set of type parameters (if it is a generic type definition) or type arguments (if it is a constructed type). A generic method differs from an ordinary method in the same way.
This is expected. According to the documentation, your expression is disallowed, because it refers to an unbound generic type:
Because the argument needs to be an expression syntactically, there are many things disallowed that are not useful to list. The following are worth mentioning that produce errors: predefined types (for example,
intorvoid), nullable types (Point?), array types (Customer[,]), pointer types (Buffer*), qualified alias (A::B), and unbound generic types (Dictionary<,>), preprocessing symbols (DEBUG), and labels (loop:).
You can work around this limitation by supplying a generic parameter:
nameof(IGenericInterface<object>.Method) Note: I think Microsoft should tweak nameof feature to allow references to methods of unbound generic types.
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