If child type is type of parent

Question

I am trying to pass a an inherited class type in to a method and want to check if the type is a type of base class. How can I do this, since inherited.GetType() == typeof(baseclass) will return false?

Answer 1

The is operator does this.

if (inherited is baseclass)
{
    // do stuff
}

You could also use Type.BaseType if you want to know that it is exactly the direct parent.