Reflection, objects, and comparing types

[mattb123]

Hi, I'm a vb.net developer getting the hang of c# and I've gotten stuck on trying to compare types. In the following block, I'm populating an object from a DataTable. The table's data types aren't always the right type so as I loop through I want to compare types and optionally try to convert to make the data match the object property types.

            Type t = _Item.GetType();

            foreach (DataRow r in dtIT.Rows)
                {
                    foreach (PropertyInfo p in t.GetProperties())
                    { 
                        //assign any matching column names to object properties
                        if (dtIT.Columns[p.Name] != null)
                        {
                           if (!(r[p.Name].GetType is p.GetType))
                            {
                                //convert type if possible
                            }

                           p.SetValue(_Item, r[p.Name], null);
                        }
                    }

what happens in the above block is I can't even build and Intellisense is flagging the p in p.GetType with this message:

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'p' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) ...\Classes\Ite mTreeData.cs 61 55 DAL

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or have any suggestions for me? Thanks!

[tlhintoq]

try it without the "is"... I *think* 'is' is only VB. Instead use the 'is equal to' double equal sign

if (!(r[p.Name].GetType == p.GetType))

[jkmyoung]

typeof(p)
?

[mattb123]

Wow, you guys are quick! Thanks for the replies.

if (r[p.Name].GetType == p.GetType)

Results in the following error in the IDE (won't build):
Error 1 Operator '==' cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'method group' C:\Users\mburt\ Documents\Visua l Studio 2010\Projects\e Commerce\EComm_ DAL\Classes\Ite mTreeData.cs 61 33 DAL

 if (r[p.Name].GetType == typeof(p))

In the above the p gets the red underline from Intellisense with the following error:
Error 1 The type or namespace name 'p' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\mburt\ Documents\Visua l Studio 2010\Projects\e Commerce\EComm_ DAL\Classes\Ite mTreeData.cs 61 61 DAL

Which seems odd to me because I use p.name without incident a few lines above.

Thanks again!
Matt

[tlhintoq]

error: cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'method group'

Means you are calling a method without the parenthises for the paramaters. Sorry I should have seen it earlier but I've been up all night.

.GetType is a method and requires .GetType()

if (r[p.Name].GetType() == p.GetType())

[mattb123]

Looks like that was it! Thank you SO MUCH!