Friend Assemblies and Generics

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So I've got a set of classes that I want only created in a given Factory class. To annoy me intensely the factory class is in a different assembly to the classes I want the factory to create.

 

So I thought "I know, I'll hide the constructors as internal, and make the other assembly with the factory class a Friend Assembly." and that would sort things out.

 

Except the factory class uses a bit of generics, and now I get messages all over about not having a blank constructor for all the types which have their constructors made internal.

 

In short:

 

---- Assembly One ---

 

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Assembly Two")]

 

class Bob

{

***//This'll fox people who may arbitrarily create my class

***internal Bob(){}

}

 

---------------------------

 

--- Assembly Two ----

 

class BobFactory

{

***T Maker() where T :*new()

***{

******...

***}

 

***SomeMethod()

***{

******//This causes an error due to Bob*not having a*public default constructor

******Bob thing = Maker();

***}

}

 

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Any ideas?

 

Perhaps I should abandon this idea and just trust my implementers (ha!).

 

[edit: hang fire on being helpful people, I may have been targetting the wrong assembly doh!]

 

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