Question

I’m hoping there’s some clever way to do this. I have a generic base service that has several methods… So currently there are some methods in this base class like Create(T obj). What I’d like is for the compiler to create a more intuitive parameter name (based off of some rule) so that when a concrete instance of the base service is created like this:

public class ProductService : BaseService<Product>

I want it to compile the ProductService method to this (for example):

public Product Create(Product product)

instead of

public Product Create(Product obj)

I know it sounds minor but an intern asked me the other day and I couldn’t tell him 100% sure that it wasn’t possible.

Answer 1

As far as I know, there is no way of achieving this automatically. However, if you really wanted to do it anyway, you could make the method virtual in BaseService, and override it in each subclass:

public override Product Create(Product product) {
    return base.Create(product);
}