Roslyn's GetTypeByMetadataName() and Generic Types

Question

I'm trying to retrieve all the IMethodSymbols within a given type. For closed types (ie. types without generics) I can just use CSharpCompilation.GetTypeByMetaDataName() and pass in the fully qualified type name.

However, with an open type (eg. MyClass<T>) the fully qualified name doesn't seem to work. I've tried supplying the fully qualified name without the type parameter (MyClass), and also with a closed type (MyClass<int>), but neither seems to work.

What's the best way to find this type using its fully qualified name?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, the compiler convention is to take a class name like MyClass<T> and represent it as

MyClass`1

A working example:

var tree = CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText(@"
public class MyClass<T> {
    public static T Method()
    {
    }
}");

var mscorlib = new MetadataFileReference(typeof(object).Assembly.Location);
var compilation = CSharpCompilation.Create("MyCompilation",
       syntaxTrees: new[] { tree }, references: new[] { mscorlib });

var type = compilation.GetTypeByMetadataName("MyClass`1");