Question

I’m trying to build a base class that can determine its own type, but I’m not sure how to go, obviously this.GetType doesn’t work inside of a typeOf, so is there any way to get the class type for the current class?

class BassClass {
public string GetValueofSomething() {
    Type type = typeof(this.GetType()); //this obviously doesn't work
    type = typeOf(BaseClass);  //works fine
    MemberInfo[] members = type.GetMembers();
    //Other stuff here
    return ""
}
}

Answer 1

GetType() returns a Type, so no need for typeof:

class BassClass
{
     public string GetValueOfSomething()
     {
        Type type = this.GetType();
        MemberInfo[] members = type.GetMembers();
        ...
    }
}

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But you should really avoid accessing a derived classes’s members with reflection, is possible. Declare an abstract or virtual member that derived classes can override:

class BaseClass
{
     protected virtual string Something
     {
         get { return ""; }
     }

     public string GetValueOfSomething()
     {
         return this.Something;
     }
}