Question

I want to get a type of a ‘BasePage’ object that I am creating. Every Page object is based off BasePage. For instance, I have a Login.aspx and in my code-behind and a class that has a method Display:

Display(BasePage page) {     ResourceManager manager = new ResourceManager(page.GetType()); } 

In my project structure I have a default resource file and a psuedo-translation resource file. If I set try something like this:

Display(BasePage page) {     ResourceManager manager = new ResourceManager(typeof(Login)); } 

it returns the translated page. After some research I found that page.GetType().ToString() returned something to the effect of ‘ASP_login.aspx’ How can I get the actual code behind class type, such that I get an object of type ‘Login’ that is derived from ‘BasePage’?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If your code-beside looks like this:

public partial class _Login : BasePage   { /* ... */   } 

Then you would get the Type object for it with typeof(_Login). To get the type dynamically, you can find it recursively:

Type GetCodeBehindType()  { return getCodeBehindTypeRecursive(this.GetType());  }  Type getCodeBehindTypeRecursive(Type t)  { var baseType = t.BaseType;    if (baseType == typeof(BasePage)) return t;    else return getCodeBehindTypeRecursive(baseType);  }