c# Template specialization

Question

can i :

    class X<T>
        where T : EventArgs
    {

    }

    class X<T>
        where T:Exception
    {

    }

in C#?

Answer 1

No, because the two clases do have the same name.

What are you trying to do?

Answer 2

You can't use the same class name for the generic constraints.

You can use base classes as constraints, but the constraint then means that you can only use derived classes - in your examples, only classes that derive from EventArgs in the first example and classes that derive from Excpetion in the second.

See the documentation for constraints on type parameters.

Answer 3

If you mean 2 classes with the same name in the same namespace with different generic type parameters - then NO, you can't!

You can only have one class in the where clause. You could use the

System.Runtime.InteropServices._Exception

interface to accept Exceptions (that would be an ugly hack, though).

If you put them in separate namespaces, you can.