Casting on run-time in C#

When I wanted a generic object extended from a class, in Java I used to write:

Class<AuthenticationProvider> c1;

What am I supposed to write in C# to do the same? How can I cast a Type Class Object in this format (a generic class extended from Authentication 开发者_JAVA百科provider)?

Do you mean Type.MakeGenericType?

Edit:

Oops, I see what you mean now. No, you can't do this in C#, because System.Type is not a generic type! It contains information about a type, but there's nothing generic about it, so typeof(Foo) does not give you Type<Foo>.

I don't see why you'd need it either, though.