Generic return value

[David Veeneman]

I'm writing a custom Find() function on a collection class derived from
List<T>. The function will return an object of the type held in the
collection.

How do I specify the return type of the function? Thanks.

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David Veeneman
Foresight Systems

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: Generic return value

David,

You can just do:

public T Find()
{
}

This assumes that T is the generic type parameter declared on the class
level.

Hope this helps.


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> I'm writing a custom Find() function on a collection class derived from
> List<T>. The function will return an object of the type held in the
> collection.
>
> How do I specify the return type of the function? Thanks.
>
> --
> David Veeneman
> Foresight Systems
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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: Generic return value

David Veeneman <davidv@nospam. com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm writing a custom Find() function on a collection class derived from
> List<T>. The function will return an object of the type held in the
> collection.
>
> How do I specify the return type of the function? Thanks.[/color]

Just specify it as T. Look at the docs for the indexer etc for samples.

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[David Veeneman]

Re: Generic return value

Helps a lot! All I had to do was leave off the brackets...