I have a method like the following:
public IEnumerable<T> GetControls<T>()
: where T : ControlBase
{
// removed.
}
I then created a class:
public class HandleBase<TOwner> : ControlBase
: TOwner
{
// Removed
}
I'd like to be able to call
GetControls<HandleBase<this.GetType()>>;
where it would use the type of THIS class to pass to the HandleBase. This would in essentially get all HandleBase that have an owner of THIS type.
How can I achieve this?
EDIT:
I'm using .NET 2.0 so solutions greater than 2.0 will not work.
The idea is to have ControlBase have a collection of other ControlBase for "children". Then they can be queried based on their type with GetControls<T>(). This would allow me to, for example, get all HandleBase for a Shape. Then I can take all of these and set Visible=false or do something else with them. Thus I can manipulate children of a specific type for a collection.
HandleBase<TOwner> requires the TOwner since it has a reference to the "owning type". So you can only add anything that extends HandleBase to a Shape. Make sense?
Thanks for all the help!