Type.FullName Property
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Gets the fully qualified name of the Type, including the namespace of the Type but not the assembly.
Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Syntax
Public MustOverride ReadOnly Property FullName As String
public abstract string FullName { get; }
Property Value
Type: System..::.String
The fully qualified name of the Type, including the namespace of the Type but not the assembly; or nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if the current instance represents a generic type parameter, an array type, pointer type, or byref type based on a type parameter, or a generic type that is not a generic type definition but contains unresolved type parameters.
Remarks
For example, the fully qualified name of the C# string type is System.String. Contrast this with the assembly-qualified name, which is the full name plus the assembly, provided by the AssemblyQualifiedName property.
If the current Type represents a generic type, the type arguments in the string returned by FullName are qualified by their assembly, version, and so on, even though the string representation of the generic type itself is not qualified by assembly. Thus, concatenating t.FullName + ", " + t.Assembly.FullName produces a result that is equivalent to t.AssemblyQualifiedName, as is the case with types that are not generic.
If the current Type represents a type parameter of a generic type, or an array type, pointer type, or byref type based on a type parameter, this property returns nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
If the current type contains generic type parameters that have not been replaced by specific types (that is, the ContainsGenericParameters property returns true), but the type is not a generic type definition (that is, the IsGenericTypeDefinition property returns false), this property returns nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic). For example, consider the classes Base and Derived in the following code.
Public Class Base(Of TBase)
End Class
Public Class Derived(Of TDerived)
Inherits Base(Of TDerived)
End Class
public class Base<TBase> { }
public class Derived<TDerived> : Base<TDerived> { }
generic<typename TBase>
public ref class Base { };
generic<typename TDerived>
public ref class Derived : Base<TDerived> { };
If you use the BaseType property to obtain the base type of Derived, the FullName property of the resulting Type object returns nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic). To get a non-null FullName, you can use the GetGenericTypeDefinition method to get the generic type definition.
This property is read-only.
Examples
The following example displays the full name of the specified type.
Note
To run this example, see Building examples that have static TextBlock controls for Windows Phone 8.
Class Example
Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock)
Dim t As Type = GetType(Array)
outputBlock.Text &= String.Format("The full name of the Array type is {0}.", _
t.FullName) & vbCrLf
End Sub
End Class
' This code example produces the following output:
'
' The full name of the Array type is System.Array.
using System;
class Example
{
public static void Demo(System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock outputBlock)
{
Type t = typeof(Array);
outputBlock.Text += String.Format("The full name of the Array type is {0}.",
t.FullName) + "\n";
}
}
/* This code example produces the following output:
The full name of the Array type is System.Array.
*/
Version Information
Windows Phone OS
Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0
Platforms
Windows Phone