Dynamic List Creation based on given object type in C#

Question

I am fairly certain this is possible, and I am thinking it is easy and I just don't know the right way to ask the question in Google. What I want to do is take pass a type into a method and return back a list of objects of that type. something like this:

public List<T> GetComponentsOfType(Type thisType)
{
    return Components.OfType<thisType>().ToList();
}

which of course doesn't compile because I don't know what I am doing.

Patrick Hofman · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-01 21:29:34Z

3

I guess you want to pass in the type parameter so you can get the typed list:

public List<T> GetComponentsOfType<T>()
{
    return Components.OfType<T>().ToList();
}

answered Jul 1, 2014 at 21:29

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Anthony Nichols Over a year ago

Thanks! I was so close. =) -- do you know what the technical terms are in here, i.e. what I could have searched for in Google to find this answer?

Patrick Hofman Over a year ago

The first effective one I found was method pass in type return c#. First but is decent.

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