nameof with generic types
This is expected. According to the documentation, your expression is disallowed, because it refers to an unbound generic type:
Because the argument needs to be an expression syntactically, there are many things disallowed that are not useful to list. The following are worth mentioning that produce errors: predefined types (for example,
int
orvoid
), nullable types (Point?
), array types (Customer[,]
), pointer types (Buffer*
), qualified alias (A::B
), and unbound generic types (Dictionary<,>
), preprocessing symbols (DEBUG
), and labels (loop:
).
You can work around this limitation by supplying a generic parameter:
nameof(IGenericInterface<object>.Method)
Note: I think Microsoft should tweak nameof
feature to allow references to methods of unbound generic types.
Just use a sample type in order to compile.
string name = nameof(IGenericInterface<int>.Method) // will be Method