Using C# Type as generic

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Published on 2010-06-08T04:47:51Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 4:52 UTC
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I'm trying to create a generic list from a specific Type that is retrieved from elsewhere:

Type listType; // Passed in to function, could be anything
var list = _service.GetAll<listType>();

However I get a build error of:

The type or namespace name 'listType' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Is this even possible or am I setting foot onto C# 4 Dynamic territory?

As a background: I want to automatically load all lists with data from the repository. The code below get's passed a Form Model whose properties are iterated for any IEnum (where T inherits from DomainEntity). I want to fill the list with objects of the Type the list made of from the repository.

public void LoadLists(object model)
{
    foreach (var property in model.GetType()
        .GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.SetProperty))
   {
        if (IsEnumerableOfNssEntities(property.PropertyType))
        {
            var listType = property.PropertyType.GetGenericArguments()[0];

            var list = _repository.Query<listType>().ToList();

            property.SetValue(model, list, null);
        }
    }
}

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