Check if 'T' inherits or implements a class/interface

Question

Is there a way to test if T inherits/implements a class/interface?

private void MyGenericClass<T> () {     if(T ... inherits or implements some class/interface } 

Answer 1

There is a Method called Type.IsAssignableFrom().

To check if T inherits/implements Employee:

typeof(Employee).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(T)); 

If you are targeting .NET Core, the method has moved to TypeInfo:

typeof(Employee).GetTypeInfo().IsAssignableFrom(typeof(T).Ge‌​tTypeInfo()) 

Note that if you want to constrain your type T to implement some interface or inherit from some class, you should go for @snajahi's answer, which uses compile-time checks for that and genereally resembles a better approach to this problem.