Question

I want to create a dictionary to associate a string to a class for example:

"dog" -> Dog class
"cat" -> Cat class

so I tried this

public Dictionary<String, Type> dic = new Dictionary<String, Type>();
dic.Add("dog", Dog);

but Add doesn’t accept Dog.

So what’s the syntax ?

Answer 1

In .Net there is a dedicated class, System.Type, used to describe classes/structures/enums (any type) in the system. Dog is the class you want this info about, to get it you can either retrieve it using just the Type by using typeof(Dog), or–if you have an instance of Dogyou can use myDog.GetType();