Default value of a type at Runtime [duplicate]

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There’s really only two possibilities: null for reference types and new myType() for value types (which corresponds to 0 for int, float, etc) So you really only need to account for two cases:

object GetDefaultValue(Type t)
{
    if (t.IsValueType)
        return Activator.CreateInstance(t);

    return null;
}

(Because value types always have a default constructor, that call to Activator.CreateInstance will never fail).

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