ambiguous/conflicting constructors in generic class

Question

I\'ve got a generic class:

public class BaseFieldValue
{
    public BaseFieldValue()
    {
        //...
    }

    public BaseFieldValue(string val         


        

Answer 1

A nasty hack, but probably no worse than any of the alternatives:

public class BaseFieldValue
{
    public BaseFieldValue()
    {
        // ...
    }

    public BaseFieldValue(StringWrapper value)
    {
        // ...
    }

    public BaseFieldValue(T value)
    {
        // ...
    }

    public class StringWrapper
    {
        private string _value;

        public static implicit operator string(StringWrapper sw)
        {
            return sw._value;
        }

        public static implicit operator StringWrapper(string s)
        {
            return new StringWrapper { _value = s };
        }
    }
}

And now it can be used as you need:

// call the generic constructor
var myValue = new BaseFieldValue("hello");

// call the string constructor
var myValue = new BaseFieldValue("hello");