Get type name without any generics info

Question

If I write:

var type = typeof(List);
Console.WriteLine(type.Name);

It will write:

List`1

Answer 1

If someone is interested, I created some extensionmethods for this problem that create a more "readable" string

it produces something like

List[string]
outer.inner[other.whatever]
IEnumerable[T0]
Dictionary[string:int]

Test here

public static class TypeEx
{
    public static string GetTypeName(this Type type)
    {
        if (type == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(type));

        if (!type.IsGenericType)
            return type.GetNestedTypeName();

        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        _buildClassNameRecursiv(type, stringBuilder);
        return stringBuilder.ToString();
    }

    private static void _buildClassNameRecursiv(Type type, StringBuilder classNameBuilder, int genericParameterIndex = 0)
    {
        if (type.IsGenericParameter)
            classNameBuilder.AppendFormat("T{0}", genericParameterIndex + 1);
        else if (type.IsGenericType)
        {
            classNameBuilder.Append(GetNestedTypeName(type) + "[");
            int subIndex = 0;
            foreach (Type genericTypeArgument in type.GetGenericArguments())
            {
                if (subIndex > 0)
                    classNameBuilder.Append(":");

                _buildClassNameRecursiv(genericTypeArgument, classNameBuilder, subIndex++);
            }
            classNameBuilder.Append("]");
        }
        else
            classNameBuilder.Append(type.GetNestedTypeName());
    }

    public static string GetNestedTypeName(this Type type)
    {
        if (type == null)
            throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(type));
        if (!type.IsNested)
            return type.Name;

        StringBuilder nestedName = new StringBuilder();
        while(type != null)
        {
            if(nestedName.Length>0)
                nestedName.Insert(0,'.');

            nestedName.Insert(0, _getTypeName(type));

            type = type.DeclaringType;
        }
        return nestedName.ToString();
    }

    private static string _getTypeName(Type type)
    {
        return type.IsGenericType ? type.Name.Split('`')[0]: type.Name;
    }
}