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Clarify Type.FullName and Type.AssemblyQualifiedName null return conditions #12106

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<summary>Gets the assembly-qualified name of the type, which includes the name of the assembly from which this <see cref="T:System.Type" /> object was loaded.</summary>
<value>The assembly-qualified name of the <see cref="T:System.Type" />, which includes the name of the assembly from which the <see cref="T:System.Type" /> was loaded, or <see langword="null" /> if the current instance represents a generic type parameter.</value>
<value>The assembly-qualified name of the <see cref="T:System.Type" />, which includes the name of the assembly from which the <see cref="T:System.Type" /> was loaded, or <see langword="null" /> if the type cannot be represented by an assembly-qualified name. Types that cannot be represented by an assembly-qualified name include types that contain unresolved generic parameters (<see cref="P:System.Type.ContainsGenericParameters" /> is <see langword="true" />) and types that contain function pointers.</value>
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<summary>Gets the fully qualified name of the type, including its namespace but not its assembly.</summary>
<value>The fully qualified name of the type, including its namespace but not its assembly; or <see langword="null" /> if the current instance represents a generic type parameter, an array type, pointer type, or <see langword="byref" /> type based on a type parameter, or a generic type that is not a generic type definition but contains unresolved type parameters.</value>
<value>The fully qualified name of the type, including its namespace but not its assembly; or <see langword="null" /> if the type cannot be represented by a fully qualified name. Types that cannot be represented by a fully qualified name include types that contain unresolved generic parameters (<see cref="P:System.Type.ContainsGenericParameters" /> is <see langword="true" />) and types that contain function pointers.</value>
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