Using GetType() inside a generic?

[Ympostor]

Can't I do some syntactic sugar like this?:

MyClass MyObject = new MyClass();
MyStaticClass.MyMethod<MyObject.GetType()>();

Thanks in advance.

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[james.curran]

Can't I do some syntactic sugar like this?:

MyClass MyObject = new MyClass();
MyStaticClass.MyMethod<MyObject.GetType()>();

And what's wrong with...

MyClass MyObject = new MyClass();
MyStaticClass.MyMethod<MyClass>();

Remember that generic classes are built out when the code is JITed --
before it is run. If you don't know the type until runtime, you can't
use a generic.

 

[Andreas Huber]

Remember that generic classes are built out when the code is JITed --
before it is run. If you don't know the type until runtime, you can't
use a generic.

You can with reflection:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.makegenerictype.aspx