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I am just trying to explore Generic class in C#.
I am trying to pass an object to the class Test and I am assigning the _value the customer object.

How to retrieve the customer object value in write method below?
C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{

    public class Customer
    {

        public int CusomerId { get; set; }
        public string CustomerName { get; set; }
        public int CustomerAge { get; set; }
    }

    public class Test<T>
    {

        T _value;

        public Test(T t)
        {

            _value = t;
        }

//i am trying here to get the customer object from _value which i assigned in _value
//i cant even use foreach in generic class...
        public void write()
        {
       

        }

    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Customer obj = new Customer();
            obj.CusomerId = 1001;
            obj.CustomerAge = 23;
            obj.CustomerName = "Anurag";

            Test<object> T1 = new Test<object>(obj);
            T1.write();
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}
Kindly help me
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Updated 21-Feb-14 7:40am
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Try this:
C#
public class Test<T> where T : Customer

where T : Customer makes sure you can only use the type Customer or types derived from Customer.

Then, change this line in the Main method:
C#
Test<Customer> T1 = new Test<Customer>(obj);

Change object into Customer, otherwise you will get a compiler error.

Now, you will be able to access the properties from the Customer class from your generic class.
 
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anurag19289 21-Feb-14 14:05pm    
I am getting error--> constraints are not allowed on non-generic declarations
Thomas Daniels 21-Feb-14 14:09pm    
On what line do you get this error?
anurag19289 21-Feb-14 14:07pm    
i think as i m using visual studio 2008 probably it doesnot support...
anurag19289 21-Feb-14 14:08pm    
so is it the only way to do so ?
anurag19289 21-Feb-14 14:10pm    
in this line itself i am getting error

public class Customer where T : Customer
try this in your write() method
object a = _value;
Customer c = (Customer)a;
Console.WriteLine(c.CustomerId);
Console.WriteLine(c.CustomerName);
Console.WriteLine(c.CustomerAge);
 
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anurag19289 21-Feb-14 21:11pm    
cool... :)

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