Question

I am going brain dead on this; I have several List’ defined, based on specific classes (c1, c2, c3…). I have a method that will process information on these lists. What I want to do is pass in the specific list, but have the method accept the generic list, and then via typeof determine what specific work to do. I know its possible, but I cant seem to get the syntax right on the method side. so, for example:

List<c1> c1var;
List<c2> c2var;
List<c3> c3var;

some_method(c1var);
some_method(c2var);
some_method(c3var);

class some_thing
some_method(List<> somevar)
if typeof(somevar).name = x then
esle if typeof(somevar).name = y then....

How do I set up the parameter list for the method?

thanks in advance
R. Sanders

Answer 1

You need to declare some_method to be generic, as well.

void SomeMethod<T>(List<T> someList)
{
    if (typeof(T) == typeof(c1))
    {
         // etc
    }
}