generic struct ref parameters

Suppose you have a generic struct and want to do something neat with this inside some method, like pass it to Console.WriteLine. Maybe you just want to print this out every time the constructor for a generic struct is called. This is just an example, of course.

I can call param.Type.ToByRefSig().Next to get a TypeSig for this, but I can’t convert that into something that I can box up. It seems fairly insistent that it’s NOT a generic sig, and it omits the <T, U> stuff whenever I convert it to a TypeDef with ToTypeDefOrRef(). This kind of makes sense in the context of the tree structure of sigs, and I’m not surprised it doesn’t work.

For return values, which are GenericInstSig for generic structs, I can just call OpCodes.Box.ToInstruction(method.ReturnValue.ToTypeDefOrRef()), and it works great, but I can’t figure out a way to do the same for ref parameters. My first thought was to manually create a GenericInstSig from the TypeSig, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around that process.

Am I heading along the right track? If so, could you give me some pointers on how to do that? If not, what’s the proper method for getting this done?

Thanks for any help you can provide! I can show some code if anything isn’t clear.

Edit: removed misleading summary

[tgrindinger]

@bprg Thanks very much! That’s very helpful.

[bprg]

@tgrindinger Try this example https://github.com/saneki/dnlib-examples