C# Generics and polymorphism: an oxymoron?

Question

I just want to confirm what I\'ve understood about Generics in C#. This has come up in a couple code bases I\'ve worked in where a generic base class is used to create type

Answer 1

public Class ReflectionReport 
{
    // This class uses Reflection to produce column-based grids for reporting.  
    // However, you need a type in order to know what the columns are. 
}

... so, in another class you have...

public Class ReflectionReportProject {
    ReflectionReport thangReport = new ReflectionReport(); 
    ReflectionReport thongReport = new ReflectionReport(); 



    ... some more stuff ...

    // Now, you want to pass off all of the reports to be processed at one time....
    public ReflectionReport[] ProvideReports() 
    {
        return new ReflectionReport[] { thangReport, thongReport } ;
    }
}