Use of IsAssignableFrom and “is” keyword in C#

Question

While trying to learn Unity, I keep seeing the following code for overriding GetControllerInstance in MVC:

if(!typeof(IController).IsAssignableF         


        

Answer 1

It's not the same.

if(controllerType is IController)

would always evaluate to false since controllerType is always a Type, and a Type is never an IController.

The is operator is used to check whether an instance is compatible to a given type.

The IsAssignableFrom method is used to check whether a Type is compatible with a given type.