Class view/object browser for children of a class?

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Is there a way in either class view or object browser to display the
children of a given class? Seems like it's easy to go up the inheritance
tree but it's not obvious how one navigates down.

- James Moore
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

James,

Lutz Roeder's Reflector will give you this information. Of course, it
is a little intensive on the processing to do this, given that it has to
search all of the types to see if the type you are looking at is a base
type. I believe that reflector will do it only for assemblies that are
loaded. It (obviously) can't tell you ALL of the types in existence that
derive from the current type you are looking at.

Hope this helps.