Is there a better way to type homing?

Question

Lately, I find a lot of code smells related to linking to common classes in C #. My fights are especially applicable to those classes which inherit DependencyObject and contain DependencyProperties.

The main problem is that when declaring a dependency property, it usually refers to the current type, which is also known as the owner. This works great and is generally not a problem for simple non-general objects, except when the object contains several dependency properties, and then the type name needs to be reinstalled in different places (simplify refactoring in Visual Studio).

public class MyDependencyObject : DependencyObject
{
    public int MyProperty
    {
        get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty); }
        set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty", typeof(int), typeof(MyDependencyObject), new UIPropertyMetadata(0));
}

Recently, I have found that when combining this gross explicit practice of self-regulation with the widespread use of generics, the code really starts to get ugly.

public class MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD> : DependencyObject
{
    public int MyProperty1
    {
        get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty1); }
        set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty1, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty1 =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty1", typeof(int), typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));

    public int MyProperty2
    {
        get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty2); }
        set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty2, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty2 =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty2", typeof(int), typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));

    public int MyProperty3
    {
        get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty3); }
        set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty3, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty3 =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty3", typeof(int), typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));

    public int MyProperty4
    {
        get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty4); }
        set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty4, value); }
    }

    public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty4 =
        DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty4", typeof(int), typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));
}

My question is if anyone knows of any tricks, hacks, or legitimate solutions to reduce the number of times that a fully qualified type name with common parameters should be referenced in situations like above.

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Answer 1

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private static readonly Type ThisType = typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));

public int MyProperty1
{
  get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty1); }
  set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty1, value); }
}

public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty1 = 
    DependencyProperty.Register("MyProperty1", typeof(int), ThisType);

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private static string GetPropertyName<TSource, TResult>(Expression<Func<TSource, TResult>> expression)
{
  if (expression.NodeType == ExpressionType.Lambda && expression.BodyType == ExpressionType.MemberAccess)
  {
    PropertyInfo pi = (expression.Body as MemberExpression).Member as PropertyInfo;
    if (pi != null)
    {
      return pi.Name;
    }
  }
  throw new ArgumentException("expression", "Not a property expression.");
}

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private static readonly Type ThisType = typeof(MyDependencyObject<TypeA, TypeB, TypeC, TypeD>));

public int MyProperty1
{
  get { return (int)GetValue(MyPropertyProperty1); }
  set { SetValue(MyPropertyProperty1, value); }
}

public static readonly DependencyProperty MyPropertyProperty1 = 
    DependencyProperty.Register(GetPropertyName((MyDependencyObject x) => x.MyProperty1), typeof(int), ThisType);