title: How do I query to get the friendly display name of an Azure resourceType?
body: <p>I am trying to output some information about Azure resources, and would like to display the same value that the Azure Portal has in the TYPE column for a list of Resources in a Resource Group. This is with the ARM APIs (using C#).</p>
  
  <p>I'm not having a lot of fun finding mappings for this.</p>
  
  <p>ie: Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines shows as "Virtual machine". </p>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <p>Microsoft.Sql/server shows as "SQL server"</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone how to query to map resourceTypes into the friendly display names shown in the Azure Portal? </p>