Passing just a type as a parameter in C#

Question

Hypothetically it\'d be handy for me to do this:

foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn, int)
foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn, string)

where t

Answer 1

Use generic types !

  class DataExtraction
{
    DateRangeReport dateRange;
    List predicates;
    List cids;

    public DataExtraction( DateRangeReport dateRange,
                           List predicates,
                           List cids)            

    {
        this.dateRange = dateRange;
        this.predicates = predicates;
        this.cids = cids;
    }
}

And call it like this :

  DataExtraction extractor = new DataExtraction(dates, predicates , cids);