c# 3.0 - Possible to get type of an aliased type in c#?

Question

Type.GetType("System.String")

Is there a lookup for the aliases available somewhere?

Type.GetType("string")

returns null.

Answer 1

This is not possible programmatically, since the 'aliases' are in fact keywords introduced in C#, and Type.GetType (like every other framework method) is part of the language-independent framework.

You could create a dictionary with the following values:

    bool      System.Boolean
    byte      System.Byte
    sbyte     System.SByte
    char      System.Char
    decimal   System.Decimal
    double    System.Double
    float     System.Single
    int       System.Int32
    uint      System.UInt32
    long      System.Int64
    ulong     System.UInt64
    object    System.Object
    short     System.Int16
    ushort    System.UInt16
    string    System.String