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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:01:00+00:00

One thing that always bugged me, is that I do not see the base

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One thing that always bugged me, is that I do not see the base type in Visual Studio.
I just stumbled on this, because I tried to cast a System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem to a System.Windows.Forms.Control

In eclipse the “intellisense” (or whatever it is called) shows me while exploring the members of a class for each member from which base class it is inherited.

In Visual Studio I cannot see the base class, even if I use the Objectbrowser or the help.

The only solution I found is to use at runtime:

Console.WriteLine(obj.GetType.BaseType)
Console.WriteLine(obj.GetType.BaseType.BaseType)
Console.WriteLine(obj.GetType.BaseType.BaseType.BaseType)
...

until I reach System.Object().
Is there a way to query the base type tree of a class at Design Time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can see this in the Object Browser; if you click the (+) sign in front of the type, there should be a folder called “Base Types” where you can explore what type the type inherits from, and any interfaces that it implements.

    There is a setting that controls this; in the tool bar of the Object Browser there is a Settings tool menu; make sure that “Show base types” is checked.

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