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    copied!<p>I would like to the get the class that is being pointed to from an Object variable.</p> <p>For instance, if I have an instance of a StringBuilder object that I subsequently set an Object variable to, can I somehow know that the Object variable points to a StringBuilder object?</p> <p>Example:</p> <pre><code>StringBuilder sbText = New StringBuilder(); Object oMyObject = sbText; // How can I determine that oMyObject points to an instance of StringBuilder object using only oMyObject </code></pre> <p>I have tried using <code>typeof(oMyObject)</code> or <code>oMyObject.GetType()</code> in every combination I can think of and still keep coming up with nothing more than <code>Object</code>. Seems like there should be a fairly straight forward way to do this and there probably is but I am not finding it.</p> <p>I must disagree with the user who marked this as a duplicate question to the one they provided the link to. The title of my question may not have been as clear as it could have been (I have altered it a bit now) and the answers to both may involve the same method but the user who asked the other question was looking for a way to instantiate an object as the same type as another object. I was only looking for the way to get the name of a class when all I have is a variable of type Object. I would never have come up with the answer that Reed provided by looking at that question and I don't recall it ever coming up in a search on this site or a wider Google search.</p>
 

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