Comments on: The is keyword: Yet another hidden treasure of C# http://iserialized.com/the-is-keyword-yet-another-hidden-treasure-of-c/ .Net, C#, Scrum and agile software development Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Anonymous http://iserialized.com/the-is-keyword-yet-another-hidden-treasure-of-c/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Anonymous Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:06:51 +0000 http://iserialized.com/?p=67#comment-272 Yep, anonymous above is correct. Following your example, the is keyword is actually equivalent to: if (myClass.GetType().IsAssignableFrom(typeof(AnotherClass))) { //do something } Yep, anonymous above is correct. Following your example, the is keyword is actually equivalent to:

if (myClass.GetType().IsAssignableFrom(typeof(AnotherClass)))
{
//do something
}

]]> By: Anonymous http://iserialized.com/the-is-keyword-yet-another-hidden-treasure-of-c/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Anonymous Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:18:22 +0000 http://iserialized.com/?p=67#comment-242 Hi, The is keyword is not equivalent to comparing types using GetType().Equals(typeof(XX)). Comparing using the is keyword will return true if an instance is compatible with a type, but using Equals(typeof(...) will return true if the types have an exact match. So in the case of inheritance, using the two compare methods might produce different results. Hi,
The is keyword is not equivalent to comparing types using GetType().Equals(typeof(XX)).

Comparing using the is keyword will return true if an instance is compatible with a type, but using Equals(typeof(…) will return true if the types have an exact match.
So in the case of inheritance, using the two compare methods might produce different results.

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