Question

Is there any point at all on inheriting from Type class in .Net?

i.e. What could be the meaning of doing so?

I am asking this because of this text in MSDN documentation:

Notes to Inheritors When you inherit from Type, you must override
the following members… list of
members.

MSDN doc for Type: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.aspx

ok, that is actually saying that anyone can inherit from Type… but they dont say why would you ever want to do that.

Thanks!

Answer 1

It all depends on what you are doing.

Here is one case. Maybe I need extra functionality on the Type class for use in my application at some point, lets say for logging. However then I need to pass it to a function that is expecting just the Type. I can pass my inherited class to that funciton without calling MyObject.GetType();