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Reflection – Getting the generic parameters from a System.Type instance
Get actual type of T in a generic List<T>

I’m looping through a PropertyInfo-List from a Class.
In this class, I’m interested in the different Lists – for example List<int>, List<string>, List<Book>, aso.

But I don’t know how I get the Type of the List-Objects. I just get something like

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

I could take this information apart and create a Type out of this information, but I hope there’s a smoother way?

Answer 1

Simple:

Type type = list.GetType().GetGenericArguments()[0];
// The first argument will be the `T` inside `List<T>`... so the list type ;)