Question

I am generating value objects and I want to switch my approach from templates to CodeDom approach.

I want my types to implement one or two self-referencing generic interfaces (namely IEquatable<MyValueObject> and IComparable<MyValueObject>).

I have been able to get the desired result by doing string manipulation and calling the equivalent of CodeTypeDeclaration.Members.Add("IEquatable<MyValueObject"), but I would rather use the object model if this is possible. Is there a better way or are strings going to be my best bet?

Answer 1

You can do something like:

var type = new CodeTypeDeclaration("MyValueObject");
var iequatable = new CodeTypeReference(
    "IEquatable", new CodeTypeReference(type.Name));
type.BaseTypes.Add(iequatable);