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copied!<p>First off, stop thinking of generic methods as templates. They are NOT templates. They have very different behaviour from templates; your expectation that they behave like templates is possibly what is leading you astray in this situation.</p> <p>Here is a series of articles I wrote about your scenario and why it is illegal.</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/14/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-one.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/14/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-one.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/18/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-two.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/18/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-two.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/21/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-three.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2007/06/21/calling-static-methods-on-type-variables-is-illegal-part-three.aspx</a></p> <p>Note that of course the "dynamic" feature that I hint at in part three is in fact shipping with C# 4.0.</p> <p>To address your actual question: "what's the best way to do this?" Presumably you have some problem which you believe a mechanism like this would solve. This mechanism doesn't actually exist in C#. <strong>It is impossible for us to deduce what problem you are actually trying to solve from the fact that you would like this mechanism to exist.</strong> Instead of asking "how can I make this impossible thing work in C#?" instead <strong>describe the real problem you have</strong>, and we can take a crack at trying to come up with an existing C# mechanism that better solves your real problem.</p>

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