How to get default value of type from class property without referring to type explicitly?

Question

I want to do something like this: default(typeof(MyClass.MyProperty)) so that in the event that the type of MyProperty needs to change, my expression default(typeof(MyClass.MyProperty)) remains correct. I think TypeScript has infiltrated my brain, and I'm not sure this is possible in C#, at least not as simply as it is in TypeScript. But, for example, if MyProperty is of one type, like int, and for whatever reason, it changes to string later, I'd want my default expression to remain true. Is this overkill? Should I just use default(int) and make a comment that hopefully someone later catches in the event they are changing the type of that property?

Answer 1

From the docs:

typeof
The argument to the typeof operator must be the name of a type or a type parameter

So exactly that is not possible.

Note that you don't need to specify type, you can use the default literal:

MyClass mc = ...;
mc.MyProperty = default;