An instance of Type can represent any one of the following types:

• Classes
• Value types
• Arrays
• Interfaces
• Pointers
• Enumerations
• Constructed generic types and generic type definitions
• Type arguments and type parameters of constructed generic types, generic type definitions, and generic method definitions

The following table shows what members of a base class are returned by the methods that return members of types, such as Type.GetConstructor(System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Reflection.CallingConventions, Type[], System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[]) and Type.GetMethod(string, System.Reflection.BindingFlags, System.Reflection.Binder, System.Reflection.CallingConventions, Type[], System.Reflection.ParameterModifier[]).

Member Type	Static	Non-Static
Constructor	No	No
Field	No	Yes. A field is always hide-by-name-and-signature.
Event	Not applicable	The common type system rule is that the inheritance of an event is the same as that of the accessors that implement the event. Reflection treats events as hide-by-name-and-signature.
Method	No	Yes. A method (both virtual and non-virtual) can be hide-by-name or hide-by-name-and-signature.
Nested Type	No	No
Property	Not applicable	The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the accessors that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature.

For reflection, properties and events are hide-by-name-and-signature. If a property has both a get and a set accessor in the base class, but the derived class has only a get accessor, the derived class property hides the base class property, and the setter on the base class will not be accessible.