Question

does anyone know a way to call a generic method of a base class with CodeDom?

I have no problem calling a standard method, but I can’t find a solution to call the generic.

The code I use to call the standard base class method GetInstance:

CodeAssignStatement assignStatement = new CodeAssignStatement(      new CodeVariableReferenceExpression('instance'),      new CodeMethodInvokeExpression(          new CodeThisReferenceExpression(),          'GetInstance',          new CodeExpression[] { new CodeVariableReferenceExpression('instance') }      )); 

Answer 1

You can find your answer here in msdn:

scroll down to the C# example (CodeDomGenericsDemo).

A generic method is generated:

 public virtual void Print<S, T>()             where S : new()         {             Console.WriteLine(default(T));             Console.WriteLine(default(S));         } 

and later executed in the example:

dict.Print<decimal, int>(); 

The code to generate the call to the method:

 methodMain.Statements.Add(new CodeExpressionStatement(                  new CodeMethodInvokeExpression(                       new CodeMethodReferenceExpression(                          new CodeVariableReferenceExpression('dict'),                              'Print',                                  new CodeTypeReference[] {                                     new CodeTypeReference('System.Decimal'),                                        new CodeTypeReference('System.Int32'),}),                                            new CodeExpression[0]))); 

(You would use CodeThisReferenceExpression() or CodeBaseReferenceExpression() instead of the CodeVariableReferenceExpression), not sure if that is what you mean by calling the standard base class method.