How do I get type information on an object?

You can get type information using reflection-

Reflection is the process by which a program can read its own metadata. A program is said to reflect on itself, extracting metadata from its assembly and using that metadata either to inform the user or to modify its own behavior.

All .NET assemblies contain type information which describes the structure of every internal and external type. Many methods in the .NET base class libraries require you to pass in type information for a given item. When you need to obtain type information for a given method invocation, you have numerous approaches.

First, all types inherit the public System.Object.GetType() method:

// obtain type information from a variable.
MyType c = new MyType();
Type t = c.GetType();
GetTypeInfo(t);

Or simply use:

// obtain type information via typeof.
GetTypeInfo(typeof(MyType));

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