How to find the child class name from base class?

Question

At run-time, inside base class, how to find the current child class name ?

Solution 1

Get the type of the current object, then its name.

this.GetType().Name

Solution 2

Try this:

Type type = this.GetType().UnderlyingSystemType;  
String className = type.Name;  

Solution 3

If you call this.GetType() you'll always get the current runtime type regardless of the base class you're inheriting from.

Comments

[Andrew Barber]

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[markg]

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[Michi-2142]

For base class you can use: this.GetType().BaseType.Name

[alikuli]

It doesn't seem to work for partial classes. You get a GUID type number added after the name of the Class.