Question

I’m trying to port some code to WinRT/Metro and I’ve hit a problem I’m not sure of the work around for. It seems Type is missing the access functions for IsPrimitive and IsSubclassOf(myClass) amongst others. Is anyone aware of how to get this functionality in Windows 8?

Answer 1

Those methods are relocated; you need to add a using directive:

using System.Reflection;

then use someType.GetTypeInfo().IsSubclassOf(...) and someType.GetTypeInfo().IsPrimitive.

(the using directive is necessary because GetTypeInfo() is an extension method from System.Reflection.IntrospectionExtensions).