How to get type name of argument of general type?

Question

If I have a method signature, for example

public string myMethod<T>( ... ) 

How can I get the name of a type specified as a type argument inside a method? I would like to do something similar to typeof(T).FullName , but it really works ...

Answer 1

Your code should work. typeof(T).FullName excellent. This is a fully compiling, functioning program:

 using System; class Program { public static string MyMethod<T>() { return typeof(T).FullName; } static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(MyMethod<int>()); Console.ReadKey(); } } 

Fulfillment of the above prints (as expected):

 System.Int32 

Answer 2

typeof (T) .Name and typeof (T) .FullName work for me ... I get the type passed as an argument.

Answer 3

Assuming you have some instance of T, it is no different from any other type.

 var t = new T(); var name = t.GetType().FullName;