Re: More about "class of" in C#

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From: Joanna Carter [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:46

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David Fallas a �crit :
> For the sake of completeness for anyone referring to this thread in future - 
> there is a little bit more to the story if using the first strategy 
> suggested.
> 
> Where there is a requirement to call a static method which has NOT been 
> overridden in a descendent class, the type.GetMethod() method will not find 
> it (where type is the descendent's type).
> 
> Instead, if it isn't known if the method has been overridden or not, one 
> needs to check the return from the type.GetMethod("xxxx") call and if null, 
> call type.BaseType.GetMethod("xxxx") to find the base class' implementation 
> of the method.

Thanks for that. I only omitted that due to lack of time.

 > This appears to differ significantly from Delphi which seems to be
 > capable of finding either a base or overridden method quite happily.

Delphi can find derived static methods because they are declared 
virtual; something that cannot be done in C#.

Joanna

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