Getting the Type’s Reflection Info Object
The other operation that’s meaningfully defined on a generic parameter T
is the typeof
expression that gets the System.Type
object describing, at runtime, the type that was supplied for the type parameter T
:
Because you’ll be reading a whole chapter about reflection (Chapter 21, “Reflection”), we defer further discussion about System.Type
until later. Practically speaking, you should rarely have to use the typeof(T)
trick.
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