Question

In the process of serializing .NET control objects to custom objects (i.e. MyControlObject) to another process for some purpose, I need to re-draw these controls in a custom manner. I need to know what type it is (button, textbox, combo box, TextField, Calander, ToolStrip, TtoolstripMenu, RichTextBox, TabControl or TreeView). I might need a sort of typeOf(RichTextBox) == RichTextBox to check.

Answer 1

Yep:

if (sayMyControlObject.GetType() == typeof(TextBox))

or

if (sayMyControlObject is TextBox)

will do it, but depending on what you do with each it will probably be nicer to encapsulate that into a switch statement like so:

switch (config.GetType().Name)
{
      case "TextBox":

      break;

      case "ComboBox":

      break;

      //etc...
}