Question

I have various classes that implements IActiveRecord.

I want to have a method where I pass in a newly created class and assign ActiveRecord to the type of the class passed in.

I have tried the below but it does not compile for some reason.

Any ideas?

private void AddRecord<T>() where T : class, new()
        {

            IActiveRecord ActiveRecord = (IActiveRecord)T;
        }

Answer 1

Your question is unclear, but if I understand correctly what you are trying to do, you just need to add the constraint where T : IActiveRecord. Then you can say

void AddRecord<T>() where T : IActiveRecord, new() { 
    IActiveRecord activeRecord = new T();
    // more stuff
}

Regarding your line

IActiveRecord ActiveRecord = (IActiveRecord)T;

this is not legal. T is a type parameter, not an expression that you can cast.