Retrieving the Type for an Instance
At the heart of reflection is System.Type, which
is an abstract base class that provides access to the metadata of a type.
You can access the Type class for any instance using GetType(),
which is a method implemented on System.Object. When you
call GetType(), the method returns a concrete subtype of System.Type,
which can reflect over and manipulate the type.
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