How to get Type from TypeInfo in WinRT?

Question

I want to register all my view models for serialization, by convention.

However the following code will not compile because the var viewmodel in the foreach loop is of type TypeInfo :

protected override void OnRegisterKnownTypesForSerialization()
{
    var viewModels = this.GetType().GetTypeInfo().Assembly.DefinedTypes
            .Where(t => _viewModelNameRegex.IsMatch(t.FullName))
            .ToList();

    foreach (var viewmodel in viewModels)
    {
        SessionStateService.RegisterKnownType(viewmodel);
    }
}

Apparently TypeInfo does not inherit from Type :

public abstract class TypeInfo : MemberInfo, IReflectableType

Unlike the full featured version , which does inherit from Type .

So how can I get to Type from a WinRT TypeInfo ?

Answer 1

TypeInfo inherits from Type in the standard .NET library, but in the portable library it is declared as:

public abstract class TypeInfo : MemberInfo, IReflectableType

The function AsType() returns the closest thing to the traditional Type

public virtual Type AsType()

Which returns Type weakly related to the TypeInfo above

public abstract class Type