How to get base data type for enum via reflection

in .Net you can make your Enum inherit from sbyte, byte, short, ushort, int,
uint, long, ulong (default is int).

What I'm trying to do is determine what is the underlying type of a enum at
runtime via reflection. But I cant figure out how. If I get the Type of my
custom emun, it's base type property just says System.Enum, who's base type
is System.Enum (and on and on...).

Is there anyway to figure this out?
Thanks,

Oh, never mind. I found it:

Enum.GetUnderlyingType(typeof(MyCustomEnum))



"john conwell" wrote:

in .Net you can make your Enum inherit from sbyte, byte, short, ushort, int,
uint, long, ulong (default is int).

What I'm trying to do is determine what is the underlying type of a enum at
runtime via reflection. But I cant figure out how. If I get the Type of my
custom emun, it's base type property just says System.Enum, who's base type
is System.Enum (and on and on...).

Is there anyway to figure this out?
Thanks,

john conwell <johnconwell (AT) discussions (DOT) microsoft.com> wrote:

in .Net you can make your Enum inherit from sbyte, byte, short, ushort, int,
uint, long, ulong (default is int).

What I'm trying to do is determine what is the underlying type of a enum at
runtime via reflection. But I cant figure out how. If I get the Type of my
custom emun, it's base type property just says System.Enum, who's base type
is System.Enum (and on and on...).

Is there anyway to figure this out?

Use Enum.GetUnderlyingType(Type)

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