C#: Globally alias a generic class name?

Question

in some project we are using Generics, and we get a lot of lines like this:

Line myLine =
           (Line

        

Answer 1

No such thing as a global alias. What you can do is use type inference to simplify your declarations:

var myLine = (Line)LineFactory.CreateLine(...);

and if that's not specific enough for the inference system, you can make the CreateLine() method generic to enforce it:

var myLine = LineFactory.CreateLine>(...);

and given the name of the LineFactory type, maybe even simplify it some more:

var myLine = LineFactory.CreateLine(...);

This last option feels "right" to me in some way I can't fully articulate. Just in case you need a little help, the method declaration would look like something this:

public static class LineFactory 
{
    public static Line CreateLine(...) { ... }
}