C# Problem with type cast

here's the code,

Type tbn =   Type.GetType(dii.DictionaryName)开发者_如何转开发;
DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary<tbn>.AddDictionaryXmlInfo((message));//error

You can't use generics like that. Generics are meant to be used for types known at compile time.

You can do it with reflection - getting the generic DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary type definition, creating the closed type using Type.MakeGenericType, then calling AddDictionaryXmlInfo on it again by reflection... but it's relatively painful.

You cannot use generics with a type that is known only at runtime. The DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary<T> type is generic and requires the T argument to be known at compile time if you want to use it.

You can't use an instance of a type as a generic parameter.

The generic parameter should be the whatever the base instance is, DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary<object> in the most generic case, but you probably want something further down the class hierarchy than that.

You can't use Type in that way, refactor DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary so it takes a Type paramater as part of the method e.g.

DictionaryXmlInfo4BaseDictionary.AddDictionaryXmlInfo(tbn, message);