Why is typeof needed?

Question

Something I\'ve been thinking about from time to time: Why is the typeof operator needed in C#? Doesn\'t the compiler know that public class Animal is a type ju

Answer 1

Well, how do you get the System.Type of a class without instantiating the class first, if you don't use the typeof operatore? Simple, you can't :D

Since you can do a lot of reflection stuff with just a System.Type, this operator is very handy.