How do you get the name of a generic class using reflection?

Question

How do you get the name of a generic class using reflection

eg

public class SomeGenericClass<T>
{
}

SomeGenericClass<int> test = new SomeGenericClass<int>();

test.GetType().Name returns "SomeGenericClass'1"

How do I get it to return "SomeGenericClass" without the '1?

Answer 1

How about just the following?

test.GetType().Name.Split('\'')[0]

It works on non-generic classes too.

Answer 2

The '1 is part of the name, because, for example, List<T> and List (if I created such a class) are different classes.

'1 means that it has one type parameter. If you want to know the type of that parameter, use test.GetType().GetGenericArguments()[0];

Answer 3

enum.GetName(test.GetType(), test).ToString()