GetType() problem

[rickarde]

Hi!

This piece of code (from my extended datagrid class implem.)

if((this.DataSource).GetType() is DataSet){

...

}

can't compile, saying that

The given expression is never of the provided ('System.Data.DataSet') type

 

???

 

Why, since the datasource property of a datagrid returns an Object which can be either a DataTable, a DataSet etc.

 

I want to, at runtime, determine whether the datasource is a DataTable or a DataSet...

 

/Rickard

[PlausiblyDamp]

try

if((this.DataSource) is System.Data.DataSet)
{
...
}

instead.

Under C# the is operator compares and instance of a variable to a datatype rather than comparing two data types to see if they are the same.