Determines whether an instance of the current can be assigned from an instance of the specified Type. - CSharp System.Reflection

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Determines whether an instance of the current can be assigned from an instance of the specified Type.

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// See LICENSE.txt for details or visit http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html
using System.Reflection;
using System.Linq;
using System;//from ww w .  j a  v a2 s  .c o m

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
      /// Determines whether an instance of the current <see cref="Type"/> can be assigned from an instance of the specified Type.
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="type">The type.</param>
      /// <param name="c">The Type to compare with the current Type.</param>
      /// <returns>true if c and the current Type represent the same type, or if the current Type is in the inheritance hierarchy of c, or if the current Type is an interface that c implements, or if c is a generic type parameter and the current Type represents one of the constraints of c. false if none of these conditions are true, or if c is null.</returns>
      public static bool IsAssignableFrom( this Type type, Type c )
      {
         return type.GetTypeInfo().IsAssignableFrom( c.GetTypeInfo() );
      }
}

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