Properties Collection

Hi all,

I wonder if one of you kind people would be able to point me in the right direction. I have a class with quite a few properties and I thought it would be quite useful to be able to iterate through the classes collections with a foreach loop and return information about each property (such as name, type etc) and its value . However, this is where I come unstuck as I can't find an out-of -box way to do this.

I guess I need a collection of properties, but I'm not sure how best to implement
it - can anyone advise

TIA

Martin.

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Properties Collection

EricPaul

Here is a little example that prints out all the types and there properties in the current assembly:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

foreach( Type type in assembly.GetTypes() )
{
Console.WriteLine( "Type found: {0}", type.Name );

foreach( PropertyInfo propertyInfo in type.GetProperties() )
{
Console.WriteLine( "Property: {0} ({1})", propertyInfo.Name, propertyInfo.PropertyType.Name );
}

Console.WriteLine( string.Empty );
}

AllanP
Well if you would like a list of properties of one class then you can use reflection to obtain the information about a class...
There are many tutorials online, just google for them.
Properties Collection

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