Re: Runtime Determination of Interface Support

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From: Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook] (Jay_Harlow_MVP_at_msn.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:20:43 -0500

Pete,
In addition to the other comments (the as operator).

You can also use the is operator.

    object anObject;
    if (anObject is IDisposable)
    {
        IDisposable disposable = (IDisposable)anObject;
        // do something with disposable
    }

Hope this helps
Jay

"Pete" <anonymous@devdex.com> wrote in message
news:OA9lrvzmEHA.1716@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible for an application to determine, at runtime, whether an
> arbitrary class supports a known interface?
>
> I can think of a couple of cludgy ways of doing this (the calling app
> will know the details of the interface, so worst-case could just blindly
> try invoking a method) but I'm scanning through the reflection
> documentation to find a clean way of doing this, and haven't found
> anything thus far.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete
>
>
>
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