Are static members of a generic class tied to the specific instance?

Question

This is more of a documentation than a real question. This does not seem to have been addressed on SO yet (unless I missed it), so here goes:

Imagine a generic class

Answer 1

IMO, you need to test it, but I think that

Foo.member = 1;
Foo.member = 2;
Console.WriteLine (Foo.member);

will output 1 because I think that, during compilation, the compilator create 1 class for every generic class you use (in you example : Foo and Foo).

But I'm not 100% sure =).

Remark : I think it's not a good design nor a good practice to use such kind of static attributes.