Question

Is it possible to get the “c# name” of a type obtained with reflexion like:

System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.String, mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]]

I would like to get:

List<String>

Is it possible without splitting strings? For example, using Reflection.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, you can do it without resorting to splitting, parsing or manipulating strings by using CodeDom and CSharpCodeProvider:

using CodeDom;
using Microsoft.CSharp;

// ...

Type yourType = typeof(List<string>);  // for example

using (var provider = new CSharpCodeProvider())
{
    var typeRef = new CodeTypeReference(yourType);
    Console.WriteLine(provider.GetTypeOutput(typeRef));
}

(You may need to do some additional string manipulation to remove the namespace prefix. For example, if you want the output to be List<string> rather than System.Collections.Generic.List<string>.)