I need to know if the type of a property in a class is a generic collection (List, ObservableCollection) using the PropertyInfo class.
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foreach (PropertyInfo p in (o.GetType()).GetProperties())
{
if(p is Collection<T> ????? )
}
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GetGenericTypeDefinition and typeof(Collection<>) will do the job:
if(typeof(Collection<>).IsAssignableFrom(p.GetType().GetGenericTypeDefinition())
Anton Gogolev
2009-10-15 08:29:47
Shouldn't you test against something like `ICollection<T>` rather than `Collection<T>`? Many of the generic collections (eg, `List<T>`) don't inherit from `Collection<T>`.
LukeH
2009-10-15 08:53:05