Skip to Main Content
C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition
book

C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
32h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Retrieving the Type for an Instance

At the heart of reflection is System.Type, which is an abstract base class that provides access to the metadata of a type.

You can access the Type class for any instance using GetType( ), which is a method implemented on System.Object. When you call GetType( ), the method returns a concrete subtype of System.Type, which can reflect over and manipulate the type.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

C# in a Nutshell

C# in a Nutshell

Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, Peter Drayton
C# 7.0 in a Nutshell

C# 7.0 in a Nutshell

Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition

C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet
C# Cookbook

C# Cookbook

Stephen Teilhet, Jay Hilyard

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596005261Catalog PageErrata