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Is there a way to take a class name and convert it to a string in C#?
As part of the Entity Framework, the .Include method takes in a dot-delimited list of strings to join on when performing a query. I have the class model of what I want to join, and for reasons of refactoring and future code maintenance, I want to be able to have compile-time safety when referencing this class.
Thus, is there a way that I could do this:
class Foo { } tblBar.Include ( Foo.GetType().ToString() ); I don't think I can do GetType() without an instance. Any ideas?
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Get Class Name Using class. In the GetClassName class, we use ExampleClass. class to get the information of the class. It returns a Class instance of type ExampleClass . Now we can call getSimpleName() using the classNameInstance that will return only the class name as a String.
C++ has in its definition a way to represent a sequence of characters as an object of the class. This class is called std:: string. String class stores the characters as a sequence of bytes with the functionality of allowing access to the single-byte character.
In C#, a string is a sequence of Unicode characters or array of characters. The range of Unicode characters will be U+0000 to U+FFFF. The array of characters is also termed as the text. So the string is the representation of the text. A string is represented by a class System.
You can't use .GetType() without an instance because GetType is a method.
You can get the name from the type though like this:
typeof(Foo).Name And as pointed out by Chris, if you need the assembly qualified name you can use
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