Question

I’m working with a hosted CLR to access a .NET-Assembly. This assembly contains generic types as:

MyGenericClass<MyClass>  // C# notation

Where spAssembly is my hosted and loaded assembly, I need to get this type via string (bstrClassName).

spAssembly->GetType_2(bstrClassName, &spType);  // C++-Access via hosted Assembly

So now I need to know how to format the classname-string. For regular classes i use something like

MyNamespace.MySubNamespace.MyClass  // Full adressing for the query.

I guess I have to address it like this:

MyNamespace.MyGenericClass<MyNamespace.MySubNamespace.MyClass>

But this doesn’t work. Any idea? Maybe a wrong syntax?

Answer 1

Generics in .Net work different than C++ templates. You have to get the generic type first and then generate a concrete type from it. So you first have to get MyGenericClass and use MakeGenericType passing MyClass as parameter.