Question

I’m using reflection to loop through a Type‘s properties and set certain types to their default. Now, I could do a switch on the type and set the default(Type) explicitly, but I’d rather do it in one line. Is there a programmatic equivalent of default?

Answer 1

• In case of a value type use Activator.CreateInstance and it should work fine.
• When using reference type just return null

public static object GetDefault(Type type) {    if(type.IsValueType)    {       return Activator.CreateInstance(type);    }    return null; } 

In the newer version of .net such as .net standard, type.IsValueType needs to be written as type.GetTypeInfo().IsValueType