C# .NET 4.0 and Generics
- by Mr Snuffle
I was wondering if anyone could tell me if this kind of behaviour is possible in C# 4.0
I have an object hierarchy I'd like to keep strongly typed. Something like this
class ItemBase {}
class ItemType<T> where T : ItemBase
{
T Base { get; set; }
}
class EquipmentBase : ItemBase {}
class EquipmentType : ItemType<EquipmentBase> {}
What I want to be able to do to have something like this
ItemType item = new EquipmentType();
And I want item.Base to return type ItemBase. Basically I want to know if it's smart enough to strongly typed generic to a base class without the strong typing. Benefit of this being I can simply cast an ItemType back to an EquipmentType and get all the strongly typedness again.
I may be thinking about this all wrong...
