Question

I got a Type whose FullName is (if this helps) :

"System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection`1[[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]]"

From that Type, I’d like to get "System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection" as a string but I’d like to do it “cleanly”, which means, without spliting the string with the char '`'.
I think the strategy is to get something like a Type or something else whose FullName will be "System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection" but I really don’t manage to do it :/

Answer 1

The “real” type name is not System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection, it’s System.Collections.ObjectModel.ObservableCollection`1, as VirtualBlackFox correctly mentions (because it’s a generic type, `1 indicates the number of generic parameters).

You can get quite close by using type.Name (gives ObservableCollection`1) and type.Namespace (gives System.Collections.ObjectModel).

Not that your type is most probably not the generic type, but its specification with generic parameter = string.

You can get the parameter type(s) (string in your case) by using type.GetGenericArguments().