Generics and type names.

[verifier]

I want to generate a correct type string by using reflection. The problem is that the generic types doesnt look like the declarations. Anyone know how to get the type name as it's declared?

For instance, List<string> becomes List`1, and it's FullName is System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[System.String, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]]

I would like to get it back as List<string>.

Anyone got some code for this?

[kasracer]

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. What do you mean by correct type? A string is a string

If you want to figure out what type something is, wouldn't typeof be better?

[TheCPUWizard]

The following "does the work" (it is a snippet pulled from working code, it will NOT compile on its own

            if (type.IsGenericType && !type.IsGenericTypeDefinition)
            {
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                sb.AppendFormat(typeName.Substring(0, typeName.IndexOf('`')));
                sb.Append("<");
                bool first = true;
                foreach (Type genericArgumentType in type.GetGenericArguments())
                {
                    if (!first)
                        sb.Append(", ");
                    first = false;
                    sb.Append(GetTypeName(genericArgumentType));
                }
                sb.Append(">");
                typeName = sb.ToString();
            }

[verifier]

ahh.. I didn't see GetGenericArguments method.

Thank you.