Question

I have a function which takes a generic:

public static ShowTrackChangesViewModel CreateVM<T>(IList<TrackChanges> TrackChanges, T entity)
        {
            //How do i access T properties ?

        }

T here is an entityFramework object. How do i cast it back to the real one to access its property ?
Do i need to write a big if code ?
Thx

Answer 1

You can add this little gem to say that T should be an object of type MyBaseType:

public static ShowTrackChangesViewModel CreateVM<T>(IList<TrackChanges> TrackChanges, T entity) where T : MyBaseType

Then, you can use entity as if it were a MyBaseType. If you need specific properties that aren’t in a base class, then you don’t want a generic method (because it wouldn’t be generic!).

Hope that helps!