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

Mykonine · Answer

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(11); 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.

bilnaad · Answer

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.

shimtanny · Answer

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