Question

Ok,

Here is what I’m doing, I have a class called Settings
Settings has a list of properties:

I’m trying to make it as dynamic as possible.
So I can just copy and paste each property and just change its name
and it will grab the new setting by the name

Example..

public string Url
{ get { return Get<string>(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod()); } }
public int Port
{ get { return Get<int>(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod()); } }

private T Get<T>(MethodBase method)
{
  // Code that pulls setting from the property name
}

Question is, how can I pass the properties type to Get, that way I don’t have to specify the data type twice..

I know this is wrong but sort of like

Get<MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().GetType()>(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod());

Answer 1

It is not possible to infer a return type; you cannot do this using generics.

If Get doesn’t use typeof(T), you can change it to return dynamic instead of using generics.
The caller can then implicitly cast the result in its return statement.

There may be a performance penalty, though.