#325 – Intellisense Understands Generic Classes

When using a generic class, Intellisense understands the type parameters passed to the class when it was constructed.  It will display the correct types when showing information for any method or property of the generic class.

Suppose we have a generic class defined as follows:

    public class ThingContainer<TThing1, TThing2>
    {
        private TThing1 thing1;
        private TThing2 thing2;

        public void SetThings(TThing1 first, TThing2 second)
        {
            thing1 = first;
            thing2 = second;
        }
    }

And suppose that we use the class as follows:

            ThingContainer<Dog, DateTime> container = new ThingContainer<Dog, DateTime>();

Now when we start entering the name of the ThingContainer.SetThings method, Intellisense displays the correct types for the method’s parameters.