Question

I’m trying to write this more generically:

public static CormantRadDock RecreateDock(RadDockSetting settings)
{
    CormantRadDock dock = new CormantRadDock();
    settings.SetSettings(dock);
    Logger.DebugFormat("Recreated dock {0}", dock.ID);
    return dock;
}

I have this:

public static T Recreate<T>() where T : new()
{
    T _control = new T();
    //settings.SetSettings(dock);
    Logger.DebugFormat("Recreated control {0}", (_control as Control).ID);
    return _control;
}

Generic Solution:

public interface ISetting<T>
{
    void SetSettings(T obj);
}

public void SetSettings(CormantRadDock dock)
{
    // do stuff with dock
}

Thanks!

Answer 1

Is this what you’re trying to do?

// move the generic type parameter up here so the interface is generic
// and not the method definition
public interface ISetting<T>
{
    void SetSettings(T obj);
}

Then you can implement it successfully in a class:

public class SomeClass: ISetting<YourSettingType>
{
    public void SetSettings(YourSettingType obj) { ... }
}