Reflection

Question

i want to reflect the System.Drawing.Color Members, how can i do this??? for example the next line works Type MyType = Type.GetType("System.Reflection.PropertyInfo"); but this is do not work Type MyType = Type.GetType(" System.Drawing.Color"); and MYType is just null. Please help

Answer 1

I hit this problem myself yesterday. Using Type.GetType("System.Drawing.Bitmap") and Type.GetType("System.Drawing.Size") both failed. I had a workaround: Bitmap temporaryBmp = new Bitmap(1,1); Type bitmapType = temporaryBmp.GetType(); temporaryBmp.Dispose(); So in your case, Type MyType = (someObjectWithTheTypeYouWant).GetType(); It probably has to do with System.Drawing being in a different assembly than System.Reflection.

Answer 2

Type MyType = Type.GetType("System.Reflection.PropertyInfo"); <- this one works Type MyType = Type.GetType(" System.Drawing.Color"); <- This one fails because of the space at the beginning of the string param.

Answer 3

Hi Maybe it helps to prepend the assembly name. Also i would suggest to switch on the exception trowing (with the overloaded version). http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemtypeclassgettypetopic.asp Simon