Question

I got a Type whose FullName is :

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

The thing is that I’d like to test if my Type is an ObservableCollection of string (in the current case, it is). So here is my code :

if (propertyType.GetType() == typeof(ObservableCollection<string>))

but it seems to fail and I don’t understand why :/

I had this code thats works :

if (propertyType.Namespace == "System.Collections.ObjectModel" && propertyType.Name == "ObservableCollection`1")
{
    //We are dealing with an ObservableCollection
    var args = propertyType.GetGenericArguments();
    if (args.Count() != 0 && args[0] == typeof(string))
    {
        //MyCode for ObservableCollection<string>
    }
}

but I don’t feel like it’s optimal and considering that I’ll have to handle other collections (IEnumerable, List, etcetc…) of other Types (int, bool, etcetc…) this doesnt fit well 🙁

Answer 1

At a guess, remove the extra .GetType():

if (propertyType == typeof(ObservableCollection<string>))

since propertyType.GetType() is probably some derivative of System.Type (such as System.RuntimeType).