Get derived class type from a base's class static method

Question

i would like to get the type of the derived class from a static method of its base class.

How can this be accomplished?

Thanks!

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Answer 1

In short this is what I tried to answer here. It uses one interface to unify all derived classes and let them all call the same static method from the base class without passing a Type.

public interface IDerived
{
}
public class BaseClass where T : IDerived
{
    public static void Ping()
    {
        //here you have T = the derived type
    }
}
public class DerivedClass : BaseClass, IDerived
{
    //with : BaseClass we are defining the T above
}
public class ExampleApp
{
    public void Main()
    {
        //here we can call the BaseClass's static method through DerivedClass
        //and it will know what Type calls it
        DerivedClass.Ping();    
    }
}