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MemberInfo::DeclaringType Property

Gets the class that declares this member.

Namespace:  System.Reflection
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
virtual property Type^ DeclaringType {
	Type^ get () abstract;
}

Property Value

Type: System::Type
The Type object for the class that declares this member.

Implements

_MemberInfo::DeclaringType

The DeclaringType property retrieves a reference to the Type object for the type that declares this member. A member of a type is either declared by the type or inherited from a base type, so the Type object returned by the DeclaringType property might not be the same as the Type object used to obtain the current MemberInfo object.

  • If the Type object from which this MemberInfo object was obtained did not declare this member, the DeclaringType will represent one of its base types.

  • If the MemberInfo object is a global member, (that is, it was obtained from Module::GetMethods, which returns global methods on a module), then the returned DeclaringType will be nullptr.

The following example shows how DeclaringType works with classes and interfaces and retrieves the member names of the System.IO.BufferedStream class, along with the class in which those members are declared. Also note that when B overrides virtual method M from A, it essentially redefines (or redeclares) this method. Therefore, B.M's MethodInfo reports the declaring type as B rather than A, even though A is where this method was originally declared.

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Reflection;

namespace MyNamespace1
{
   interface class i
   {
      int MyVar();
   };

   // DeclaringType for MyVar is i. 
   ref class A: public i
   {
   public:
      virtual int MyVar()
      {
         return 0;
      }

   };

   // DeclaringType for MyVar is A. 
   ref class B: public A
   {
   private:
      int MyVar() new
      {
         return 0;
      }
   };

   // DeclaringType for MyVar is B. 
   ref class C: public A{};
}

// DeclaringType for MyVar is A. 
int main()
{
   Console::WriteLine( "\nReflection.MemberInfo" );

   //Get the Type and MemberInfo. 
   Type^ MyType = Type::GetType( "System.IO.BufferedStream" );
   array<MemberInfo^>^Mymemberinfoarray = MyType->GetMembers();

   //Get and display the DeclaringType method. 
   Console::WriteLine( "\nThere are {0} members in {1}.", Mymemberinfoarray->Length, MyType->FullName );
   System::Collections::IEnumerator^ enum0 = Mymemberinfoarray->GetEnumerator();
   while ( enum0->MoveNext() )
   {
      MemberInfo^ Mymemberinfo = safe_cast<MemberInfo^>(enum0->Current);
      Console::WriteLine( "Declaring type of {0} is {1}.", Mymemberinfo->Name, Mymemberinfo->DeclaringType );
   }
}

namespace MyNamespace3
{
   ref class A
   {
   public:
      virtual void M(){}

   };

   ref class B: public A
   {
   public:
      virtual void M() override {}
   };
}
NoteNote:

DeclaringType returns only the member names and the names of their declaring types. To return the member names with their prototypes, call MemberInfo.ToString.

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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Compact Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 2.0, 1.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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