Question

Say I have this class hierarchy:

public abstract class Base {};
public class Child1 : Base {};
public class Child2 : Base {};

At some point I persist one of inherited classes in IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings and then get it back as object. How can I find out whether it is Child1 or Child2 and type cast it to right type at runtime?

Answer 1

Can you not just use is ?

if(myobject is Child1)
    var child1 = (Child1)myobject;
else if (myobject is Child2)
    ....