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There is a C# Class, Type, which can be used to get details about other classes.
Problem: Type.Name does not return friendly names for generic types.
So I wrote an extension method, which returns the friendly name for any Type.
Type t = typeof(string); Debug.WriteLine(t.Name);This prints out "String". When you get the value of the property Name when t is assigned to a generic type...
Type t = typeof(List<string>); Debug.WriteLine(t.Name);
This prints out "List`1`".
Problem: Type.Name does not return friendly names for generic types.
So I wrote an extension method, which returns the friendly name for any Type.
public static string GetFriendlyName(this Type type)
{
if (type.IsGenericType)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(type.Name.Remove(type.Name.IndexOf('`')));
sb.Append("<");
Type[] arguments = type.GetGenericArguments();
for(int i = 0; i < arguments.Length; i++)
{
sb.Append(arguments[i].GetFriendlyName());
if (i + 1 < arguments.Length)
{
sb.Append(", ");
}
}
sb.Append(">");
return sb.ToString();
}
else
{
return type.Name;
}
}
It's used like this:
Type t = typeof(List<String>); Debug.WriteLine(t.GetFriendlyName());This prints out "List<String>"
