Suppose we have a nested generic class:
public class A {
public class B { }
}
Here, typeof(A
Apparently it can't be done in C#, you have to specify either both type parameters, or none.
And it doesn't seem to be supported by the CLR either, A<int>.B<>
and A<string>.B<>
refer to the same type:
Type t1 = typeof(A<int>).GetNestedType("B`1");
Type t2 = typeof(A<string>).GetNestedType("B`1");
// t1.Equals(t2) is true
The enclosing type of both types is A<>
(open generic type)
EDIT: further testing shows that typeof(A<int>.B<string>)
is actually a generic type of arity 2, not a nested generic type of arity 1... typeof(A<int>.B<string>).GetGenericArguments()
returns an array with typeof(int)
and typeof(string)
. So typeof(A<int>.B<>)
would actually be equivalent to (A.B)<int, >
, which isn't supported (a generic type can't be partially closed)