From Java to C#: A Developer's Guide

10.6. The is operator (Java's instanceof operator)

C#'s is operator is used to determine if the runtime type of an object is equivalent to another, much like how Java's instanceof is used.

It goes like this:

<expression> is <type>

The is operator returns a boolean result (true or false).

The is operator returns true if:

• <expression> is not null AND

• <expression> is an object which is either a subclass of <type> or is a class that implemented <type> (in this case, <type> is an interface) – in other words, if <expression> can be successfully cast into <type>.

Let's study an example. The output is shown as comments. For convenience, the inheritance relations between the classes in this example are shown in Figure 10.2.

 1: using System; 2: 3: interface ...