Passing just a type as a parameter in C#

Question

Hypothetically it\'d be handy for me to do this:

foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn, int)
foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn, string)

where t

Answer 1

foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn, typeof(string))

Alternatively, you could use a generic method:

public void GetColumnValues(object mainColumn)
{
    GetColumnValues(mainColumn, typeof(T));
}

and you could then use it like:

foo.GetColumnValues(dm.mainColumn);