Question

I have a method in which I’m doing a check to see if the current object in a loop is the same type as a type I pass into the method.

At first I was passing the type into the method as a string and then using:

item.GetType().ToString().Equals(myType);

What I’d really prefer to do is use the is keyword to do:

item is myType

The problem I’m having is passing in myType to the method. Do I need to use some kind of funky generics type or something? What type do I pass in a reference ot a type as?

Answer 1

Is it something like this?

public static bool ContainsType<T>()
{
    object[] objects = new object[] { };

    foreach (var o in objects)
    {
        if (o is T)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    ContainsType<int>();
}