Self-referencing Current Type's Name (static Version Of Me/MyClass)?

Traditionally, class/type name is literally spelled inside its definition.

Public Class MyCustomClass
Public child As MyCustomClass
Public Shared Function Clone(ByVal original As MyCustomClass) As MyCustomClass
End Class

This is not a problem most of the time; C-languages even use class name as constructor methods' name. But consider a generic declaration:

Public Class MyListOfIntegers
Inherits MyCustomList(Of Integer)
End Class

[code]....

This scenario has 2 issues. The first one is that constructors are not inherited, and you have to provide pass-through wrappers in every derived class, — this is quiet dumb, but tolerable. The second issue is more severe: derived class inherits CloneMe() method which returns MyCustomList(Of Integer) , not MyListOfIntegers ! Every returned value must be manually DirectCast 'ed for further use with methods that expect MyListOfIntegers . This issue, together with the first one, renders inheritance of generic class almost useless.

So I need a "MyClass" alternative for static type-binding inside type definition. In case of generic type that is referencing other compound types, task could be accomplished by adding second parameter to type section:

Public Class MyCustomList(Of T, TList)
...
Public Function CloneMe() As TList

[code]....

But since we must reference our own type, it would create an infinite recursive loop of additional typeparamlist arguments. How can this be resolved, aside of creating separate classes without generics?