Enum type from one of its members

[Paul E Collins]

How can I get the type of an enum given one of its members?

object memb = MyEnum.SomeValue;
Type parent = SOMETHING(memb);

Afterwards, the 'parent' variable should hold typeof(MyEnum).

Eq.

 

[Christof Nordiek]

How can I get the type of an enum given one of its members?

object memb = MyEnum.SomeValue;
Type parent = SOMETHING(memb);

Type parent = memb.GetType();

That should do it.

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Paul,

There is a method GetType declared on the level of the base Object type.
That means it can be called for any reference regardless of its type. When
this method is called it returns the actual runtime class of the object.
This method cannot be overloaded, so it always return the correct type and
cannot be fooled.

Type t = memb.GetType();