More VB.NET to C# porting woes: GetType

[Sparky74]

I'm porting some VB.NET code to C# at the moment and I'm struggling with one statement:

Public Overrides ReadOnly Property DisplayName() As String
Get
  Dim mna As DisplayNameAttribute = _PropDesc.Attributes(GetType(DisplayNameAttribute))
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  If Not IsNothing(mna) Then
    Return mna.ToString()
  End If
  Return _PropDesc.Name
End Get
End Property
 

Have you any idea what this is supposed to be? GetType() is confusing me - I have only seen it as a method on an object. Here it looks to be used like a function ??

_PropDesc is a PropertyDescriptor and the Attributes member is an AttributesCollection. I'm assuming that the round brackets after the 'Attributes' is really indexing the collection/array ???

Any ideas?

[Sparky74]

OK folks, I figured it out:

    public override String DisplayName 
    {
      get 
      { 
        DisplayNameAttribute mna = (DisplayNameAttribute) _PropDesc.Attributes[ typeof( DisplayNameAttribute ) ];
 
        if( mna != null )
          return mna.ToString();
 
        return _PropDesc.Name;
      }
    }
 

[kenobewan]

Well done, thanks for sharing the solution :).