Is there a way to get a type’s alias through reflection?

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Nope – just create a Dictionary<Type,string> to map all of the types to their aliases. It’s a fixed set, so it’s not hard to do:

private static readonly Dictionary<Type, string> Aliases =
    new Dictionary<Type, string>()
{
    { typeof(byte), "byte" },
    { typeof(sbyte), "sbyte" },
    { typeof(short), "short" },
    { typeof(ushort), "ushort" },
    { typeof(int), "int" },
    { typeof(uint), "uint" },
    { typeof(long), "long" },
    { typeof(ulong), "ulong" },
    { typeof(float), "float" },
    { typeof(double), "double" },
    { typeof(decimal), "decimal" },
    { typeof(object), "object" },
    { typeof(bool), "bool" },
    { typeof(char), "char" },
    { typeof(string), "string" },
    { typeof(void), "void" }
};

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