Revit Dynamo Tricks shared by Jacob Small at autodesk

Jacob Small at Autodesk shares some dynamo tricks with me to expose parameters and methods of elements in lists using a code block in Dynamo with some of the following tricks:
 a.Parameters;
 a.Parameters.Name;
 a.GetParameterValueByName(“ParamName”);
 DSCore.Object.Type(a);

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