C#: "Pretty" type name function?

The problem with "pretty" names is they are different depending on the language you are using. Imagine the surprise of a VB.NET developer if OriginalName returned C# syntax.

However, it's pretty fairly easy to make this yourself:

private static string PrettyName(Type type)
{
    if (type.GetGenericArguments().Length == 0)
    {
        return type.Name;
    }
    var genericArguments = type.GetGenericArguments();
    var typeDefinition = type.Name;
    var unmangledName = typeDefinition.Substring(0, typeDefinition.IndexOf("`"));
    return unmangledName + "<" + String.Join(",", genericArguments.Select(PrettyName)) + ">";
}

This will recursively resolve the unmanaged name, so that if you have something like Dictionary<string, IList<string>> it should still work.

I used CodeDomProvider to convert to c#:

    public static string GetOriginalName(this Type type)
    {
        string TypeName = type.FullName.Replace(type.Namespace + ".", "");//Removing the namespace

        var provider = System.CodeDom.Compiler.CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("CSharp"); //You can also use "VisualBasic"
        var reference = new System.CodeDom.CodeTypeReference(TypeName);

        return provider.GetTypeOutput(reference);
    }