Good afternoon people,

I would like to know if (and if so how) it is possible to define a namespace as a constraint parameter in a generic class declaration.

What I have is this:

namespace MyProject.Models.Entities <-- Contains my classes to be persisted in db

namespace MyProject.Tests.BaseTest <-- Obvious i think

Now the decleration of my 'BaseTest' class looks like so;

public class BaseTest<T>

This BaseTest does little more (at the time of writing) than remove all entities that were added to the database during testing. So typically I will have a test class declared as:

public class MyEntityRepositoryTest : BaseTest<MyEntity>

What i would LIKE to do is something similar to the following:

public class BaseTest<T> where T : <is of the MyProject.Models.Entities namespace>

Now i am aware that it would be entirely possible to simply declare a 'BaseEntity' class from which all entities created within the MyProject.Models.Entities namespace will inherit from;

public class BaseTest<T> where T : MyBaseEntity

but...I dont actually need to, or want to. Plus I am using an ORM and mapping entities with inheritance, although possible, adds a layer of complexity that is not required.

So, is it possible to constrain a generic class parameter to a namespace and not a specific type ?

Thank you for your time.