CodeTypeReference Class
Represents a reference to a type.
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
A CodeTypeReference object is used to represent a type for CodeDOM objects. When CodeDOM types have a Type property, it is of type CodeTypeReference. For example, the CodeMemberField.Type property is a CodeTypeReference that represents a field's data type.
A CodeTypeReference can be initialized with a Type object or a string. It is generally recommended to use a Type to do this, although it may not always be possible. If initializing an instance of this class with a string, it is strongly recommended to always use fully qualified types, such as "System.Console" instead of just "Console", because not all languages support importing namespaces. Array types can be specified by either passing in a type object for an array or using one of the constructors that accept rank as a parameter.
The BaseType property specifies the name of the type to reference. For references to array types, the ArrayElementType property indicates the type of the elements of the array, and the ArrayRank property indicates the number of dimensions in the array.
The following example demonstrates use of a CodeTypeReference to represent a reference to a type.
' Creates a reference to the System.DateTime type. Dim typeRef1 As New CodeTypeReference("System.DateTime") ' Creates a typeof expression for the specified type reference. Dim typeof1 As New CodeTypeOfExpression(typeRef1) ' Create a Visual Basic code provider Dim provider As CodeDomProvider = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("VisualBasic") ' Generate code and send the output to the console provider.GenerateCodeFromExpression(typeof1, Console.Out, new CodeGeneratorOptions()) ' The code generator produces the following source code for the preceeding example code: ' GetType(Date)
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