How to tell if an instance is of a certain Type or any derived types

Question

I\'m trying to write a validation to check that an Object instance can be cast to a variable Type. I have a Type instance for the type of object they need to provide. But th

Answer 1

How about this:

    MyObject myObject = new MyObject();
    Type type = myObject.GetType();

    if(typeof(YourBaseObject).IsAssignableFrom(type))
    {  
       //Do your casting.
       YourBaseObject baseobject = (YourBaseObject)myObject;
    }  

This tells you if that object can be casted to that certain type.