Cannot implicitly convert derived type to its base generic type

Question

I have the following classes and interfaces:

public interface IThing
{
    string Name { get; }
}

public class Thing : IThing
{
    public string Name { get         


        

Answer 1

You need to define your class like this I believe:

public class MyThingConsumer : ThingConsumer

The reason is that ThingConsumer is already typed in its definition with this: where T : IThing

Now, you can make the call return new MyThingConsumer();.

This should in turn match the expected return type of ThingConsumer

EDIT

Sorry for the confusion, here is what should work:

public class MyThingConsumer : ThingConsumer where T : IThing

and

return new MyThingConsumer();