retrieving the type of a generic Type argument

Hello,

I have a question considering generics.If we take the next code snippet:

public abstract class TypedResourceRetriever<T>{

public Type ResourceType{
get {
return T;
}
}
}

This code does not work. I wonder why microsoft did not make this work.
It would be really handy for me to have this feature in the C# language.

I solved the problem with the code below:

public abstract class TypedResourceRetriever<T>{

public Type ResourceType{
get {
Type t = this.GetType();
while (! t.Name.StartsWith("TypedResourceRetriever")){
t = t.BaseType;
}
return t.GetGenericArguments()[0];
}
}
}

Obviously this is not the way to do it.
(if someone overrides this class using a classname which starts with TypedResourceRetriever
we definitly have trouble)

So my question is wether anyone knows a better way to solve this problem.

Kind regards,

herman lindner