how to get type of a nullable type when the underlying value is null?

[zdbdam]

I tried to use following code to get "System.Decimal" but I received this undesirable exception!



decimal? x = null;
Console.WriteLine(x.GetType()); //I will get an NullReferenceException.


maybe one solution is:

decimal? x = null;
Console.WriteLine(x.GetValueOrDefault().GetType())

but i presume there is a better way.

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