Question

Say you had a timestamp function and then wanted to create a new function to combine your timestamp and Console.WriteLine(), e.g.

public static void Write(string msg)
    {
        WriteTimeStamp();
        Console.WriteLine( msg );
    }

But the WriteLine() method has 18 or so overloads, which will not be reflected in the signature of the wrapper function. How would you have the wrapper take non-strings and pass them on to WriteLine()?

Answer 1

In C#4.0 you could use a dynamic variable (see this blog post):

public static void Write(object msg) 
{
    WriteTimeStamp();
    dynamic dynMsg = msg;
    Console.WriteLine(dynMsg); 
}