Contains run-time information about a type—specifically, a string name and a typecode. Obtained by calling Object::GetType on any object or using the typeid operator on a class or struct name.

public ref class Platform::Type :
    Platform::Object, Platform::Details::IEquatable,
    Platform::Details::IPrintable

The Type class is useful in applications that must direct processing by using an if or switch statement that branches based on the run-time type of an object. The type code that describes the category of a type is retrieved by using the Type::GetTypeCode member function.

Minimum supported client: Windows 8

Minimum supported server: Windows Server 2012

Namespace: Platform

Metadata: platform.winmd

Retrieves the fully-qualified name of the current type in the form Namespace.Type.

String^ FullName();

The name of the type.

//  namespace is TestApp
MainPage::MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    Type^ t = this->GetType();
    auto s = t->FullName; // returns "TestApp.MainPage"
    auto s2 = t->ToString(); //also returns "TestApp.MainPage"
}

Retrieves a built-in types numerical type category.

Platform::TypeCode GetTypeCode();

One of the Platform::TypeCode enumerated values.

The equivalent of the GetTypeCode() member method is the typeid property.

Retrieves the name of the type.

Platform::String^ ToString();

A name of the type as specified in its metadata.

Platform namespace