Type.BaseType Property
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Gets the type from which the current Type directly inherits.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
The base type is the type from which the current type directly inherits. Object is the only type that does not have a base type, therefore Nothing is returned as the base type of Object.
Interfaces inherit from zero or more base interfaces; therefore, this property returns Nothing if the Type object represents an interface. The base interfaces can be determined with GetInterfaces.
If the current Type represents a constructed generic type, the base type reflects the generic arguments. For example, consider the following declarations:
For the constructed type C<int> (C(Of Integer) in Visual Basic), the BaseType property returns B<int>.
If the current Type represents a type parameter of a generic type definition, BaseType returns the class constraint, that is, the class the type parameter must inherit. If there is no class constraint, BaseType returns System.Object.
This property is read-only.
The following example demonstrates using the BaseType property.
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To run this example, see Building examples that have static TextBlock controls for Windows Phone 8. |
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