How to pass an Object type to Type parameter in C#

Question

I have a function that has Type Parameter.

public static object SetValuesToObject(Type tClass, DataRow dr)
{
   //
   .............
   //
   return object
} 

I have no idea how to pass a class as parameter for this function. Here i want to pass parmeter Class "Product".

I tried this

 SetValuesToObject(Product,datarow);

But it doesn't work. How could i do this?

Answer 1

The typeof keyword when you know the class at compile time.

SetValuesToObject(typeof(Product),datarow);

You can also use object.GetType() on instances that you don't know their type at compile time.

Answer 2

You have a few options:

1. instance.GetType() : this method (defined in Object) will return the instance's type.
2. typeof(MyClass) : will give you the type for a class.

Finally, if you own the method, you could change it to use Generics, and call it like this instead

SetValuesToObject<Product>(datarow)