Checking if Type or instance implements IEnumerable regardless of Type T

Question

I\'m doing a heavy bit of reflection in my current project, and I\'m trying to provide a few helper methods just to keep everything tidy.

I\'d like to provide a pair

Answer 1

The following line

return (type is IEnumerable);

is asking "if an instance of Type, type is IEnumerable", which clearly it is not.

You want to do is:

return typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(type);