Re: knowing the interfaces that an object implements

It's not evaluated until runtime - therefore it actually does work. It uses
the IL instruction isinst to make the determination.

Hope this helps,

Nick Hall

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jakob Christensen <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am no VB.net expert but I believe the following will work:
>>
>> If TypeOf connection Is IDisposable Then
>> connection.Dispose()
>> End If
>
> I don't believe it should, if Option Strict is on. The compiler still
> doesn't know that connection implements IDisposable - it doesn't
> understand the consequences of the "if" passing.
>
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