Class inference

[DwR]

Hi, I need to determine the parent class from which a particular subclass is derived. Could someone kindly explain to me how I can access that information please? Regards, Dave

Regards, Dave

[Christian Graus]

Well this is something you should know at design time, not in code. Why would you need to check in code when a class in C# can only have one parent class ? Can you better explain what you're trying to do ? The is and as keywords let you do stuff like if ( x is mybase) which returns true if the object x is a mybase, either directly or as a parent.

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[Wendelius]

One way to do it is to examine the BaseType. For example: myObject.GetType().BaseType...

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[Chamadness]

if you have an instance of that class:

object unknown = ?;
Type unknownType = unknown.GetType();
Type toFind = unknownType.BaseType;

The variable Type will hold the type your class directly inherits from. I hope this answers your question.