Check for Inheritance

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I want to use reflection to check if a given class inherits from
UserControl. The solution would need to consider the possibility that the
class does not inherit directly from UserControl but goes through several
layers. Besides creating an instance of the control and doing something like
"myControl Is UserControl", can I use reflection to determine this?

Thanks.

- Jason
 
Jason said:
I want to use reflection to check if a given class inherits from
UserControl. The solution would need to consider the possibility that the
class does not inherit directly from UserControl but goes through several
layers. Besides creating an instance of the control and doing something like
"myControl Is UserControl", can I use reflection to determine this?
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Type.IsAssignableFrom is probably the easiest way.

if (typeof(UserControl).IsAssignableFrom (testType))
 
bool DoesItDeriveFromUserControl(string typename)
{
bool ret = false;
for( Type t = Type.GetType(typename); t.BaseClass; t != typeof(object); t = t.BaseType)
{
if( t == typeof(UserControl) )
{
ret = true;
break;
}
}
return ret;
}

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog

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I want to use reflection to check if a given class inherits from
UserControl. The solution would need to consider the possibility that the
class does not inherit directly from UserControl but goes through several
layers. Besides creating an instance of the control and doing something like
"myControl Is UserControl", can I use reflection to determine this?

Thanks.

- Jason



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I vote mine as the worst solution ;-)

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
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bool DoesItDeriveFromUserControl(string typename)
{
bool ret = false;
for( Type t = Type.GetType(typename); t.BaseClass; t != typeof(object); t = t.BaseType)
{
if( t == typeof(UserControl) )
{
ret = true;
break;
}
}
return ret;
}

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/richardb/weblog

nntp://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/<[email protected]>

I want to use reflection to check if a given class inherits from
UserControl. The solution would need to consider the possibility that the
class does not inherit directly from UserControl but goes through several
layers. Besides creating an instance of the control and doing something like
"myControl Is UserControl", can I use reflection to determine this?

Thanks.

- Jason



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