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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:43:55+00:00

I have a class of type ISimpleCache<IBrokeredDataObject> that I want to add as a

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I have a class of type ISimpleCache<IBrokeredDataObject> that I want to add as a type alias (then a type) in the App.Config file

the line

<typeAlias alias='ISimpleCacheOfIBrokeredDataObject' type='MyApplication.ISimpleCache<IBrokeredDataObject>, MyApplication' />

is obviously wrong due to the <>, however I’m not convinced escaping them;

<typeAlias alias='ISimpleCacheOfIBrokeredDataObject' type='MyApplication.ISimpleCache&lt;IBrokeredDataObject&gt;, MyApplication' />

is correct either.

I am currently ripping my code apart to use Unity, so am too far from a compilable code base to test this quickly, and was hoping to get some confirmation here.

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  1. Check out this blog post:

    In order to write a generic type, use the ` sign followed by the number of generic types that the interface/class receives.

    And a comment in the same page said:

    In order to use a constant type in the generic you need to use brackets ([[ ]]).

    So I guess your configuration file should contain something like this:

    <typeAlias alias='ISimpleCacheOfIBrokeredDataObject'    type='MyApplication.ISimpleCache`1[[MyApplication.IBrokeredDataObject, MyApplication]], MyApplication' />

    Note the use of the ‘grave accent’ or ‘backquote’ character (`), not the normal single quote (').

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