Using Generics to Create HtmlHelper Extension Methods

Question

I\'m not really familiar with creating generic methods, so I thought I\'d put this question to the community & see what comes back. It might not even be a valid use of gener

Answer 1

I'm thinking generics is not exactly what you are looking for here.

Instead you might want to take one of two different approaches

1. Make all of your classes descend from a common one which has a virtual method called "Render" or something similiar. That way you can just call the classes render method.

2. Make all of your classes implement an Interface which has a Render method..

That you you would just call:

Although each class then has to implement it's own Render method, you would 1. avoid reflection, 2. have complete control on a class basis on what the output is.