A couple of people have come to my site with the query "c# instanceof". I know how I get found for this. I copied an "instanceof" javascript method and talked about it in one of my entries.
The only relation to c# that I can think of would be the "is" and "as" keywords."is" can be used to test what type of object an object reference is. For instance [no pun intend, or thought of I think :)] a developer could write:if(m_car is MiniCooper){...they would be saying that if the m_car variable is of the type MiniCooper then do something.The "as" keyword is used to "cast" a type to another type. So you could writeif(m_car is MiniCooper){MiniCooper mc = m_car as MiniCooper;
The "as" keyword is slightly differnt to the Explicit cast (MiniCooper mc = (MiniCooper) m_car; because if the cast dosn't work with an "as" then the mc local variable will be null, rather than throwing an "InvalidCastException".
I hope this helps.
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