How to reuse Type returned value to generate new source code

.net-2.0, c#

Solution

You appear to want to get a C#-compatible name from a `System.Type`. You can do this with the `CSharpCodeProvider` class.

var typeReference = new CodeTypeReference(typeof(Dictionary<int, double>));

using (var provider = new CSharpCodeProvider())
    Console.WriteLine(provider.GetTypeOutput(typeReference));

Output:

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, double>

Note that this is not guaranteed to always provide you with a valid type-name. In particular, compiler-generated types (such as for closures) will typically have type-names that are invalid in C#.

Problem

I have this problem: I want to generate a new source code file from a object information. I make something like this: dictParamMapping is a `Dictionary<string, Type>` where the string is a variable name and Type is the type of that variable. I get the type to build new code using: ``` dictParamMapping[pairProcess.Value].Type.Name (or FullName) ``` When Type is int, string, datatable etc... everything works fine but when it is a dictionary, list or any other like that it returns something like: ``` System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[[System.Int32, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[System.Double, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089]] ``` Which is not correct to build that new source code. I would like to get something like `Dictionary<int, double>` Can any one help me?

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