Blog posts by Bartek Tatkowski2010-03-23T11:35:02.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Bartek-Tatkowski/ Optimizely World How to get the PageTypeName property without creating a page instance<p>In a project we’re currently working on here at Nansen we stumbled upon the need to get the name of a page type without having an actual reference to page of that type. </p> <p>Since we’re using Joel’s PageTypeBuilder, getting the name was a simple task of reflecting the PageTypeAttributes object.</p> <pre style="border-bottom: #cecece 1px solid; border-left: #cecece 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; background-color: #fbfbfb; min-height: 40px; padding-left: 5px; width: 650px; padding-right: 5px; overflow: auto; border-top: #cecece 1px solid; border-right: #cecece 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"><pre style="background-color: #fbfbfb; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">public</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">static</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">string</span> GetPageTypeName<T>() where T : TypedPageData
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</pre><pre style="background-color: #fbfbfb; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"></pre><pre style="background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"> System.Reflection.MemberInfo memberInfo = <span style="color: #0000ff">typeof</span>(T);
</pre><pre style="background-color: #fbfbfb; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: #0000ff">object</span>[] attributes = memberInfo.GetCustomAttributes(<span style="color: #0000ff">typeof</span>(PageTypeAttribute), <span style="color: #0000ff">false</span>);
</pre><pre style="background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"></pre><pre style="background-color: #fbfbfb; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: #0000ff">if</span> (attributes.Count() > 0)
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</pre><pre style="background-color: #fbfbfb; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"> PageTypeAttribute pta = attributes.First() <span style="color: #0000ff">as</span> PageTypeAttribute;
</pre><pre style="background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0em; width: 100%; font-family: consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 12px"> <span style="color: #0000ff">return</span> pta.Name;
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