.NET : How do you get the Type of a null object?

Question

I have a method with an out parameter that tries to do a type conversion. Basically:

public void GetParameterValue(out object destination)
{
    object param         


        

Answer 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/58918ffs.aspx

or

private Hashtable propertyTable = new Hashtable();

public void LoadPropertyTypes()
{
    Type t = this.GetType();

    System.Reflection.MemberInfo[] memberInfo = t.GetMembers();

    foreach (System.Reflection.MemberInfo mInfo in memberInfo)
    {
        string[] prop = mInfo.ToString().Split(Convert.ToChar(" "));
        propertyTable.Add(prop[1], prop[0]);
    }
}
public string GetMemberType(string propName)
{
    if (propertyTable.ContainsKey(propName))
    {
        return Convert.ToString(propertyTable[propName]);
    }
    else{
        return "N/A";
    }
}

in that way we can use switch to manage different property types.