Question

I have the following case:

public interface IPerson { .. }    
public class Person : IPerson { .. }    
public class User : Person { .. }

Now; if I have a “User” object – how can I check if this implements IPerson using reflection? To be more precise I have an object that might have a property SomeUser, which should be of some type implementing the interface “IPerson”. In my case I actually have a User, but this is what I want to check through reflection. I can’t figure out how to check the property type since it is a “User”, but I want to check if it implements IPerson…:

var control = _container.Resolve(objType); // objType is User here
var prop = viewType.GetProperty("SomeUser");
if ((prop != null) && (prop.PropertyType is IPerson)) 
{ .. }

(Note that this is a simplification of my actual case, but the point should be the same…)

Answer 1

Check the Type.IsAssignableFrom method.