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.NET : How do you get the Type of a null object?
Basically I would like code like one of the following to work without a null reference error:
int? i1 = default(int?);
int? i2 = new Nullable<Int32>();
int? i3 = new int?();
var t1 = i1.GetType();
var t2 = i2.GetType();
var t3 = i3.GetType();
I would hope/expect that I would be able to obtain the type from the i objects above without a null reference exception.
If this is not possible, how would I be able to create a reference to a Nullable Int while maintaining a null value.
UPDATE: for those interested and don't want to sift through the not totally applicable answers in the linked question, the solution is:
private void Example()
{
var i = default(int?);
var t = this.GetDeclaredType(i);
}
private Type GetDeclaredType<T>(T obj)
{
return typeof(T);
}
