How to get name and values of properties of properties of Class in c# through reflection

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Public class Person
{
public string name{get;set;}//get this via Model class
..

...
}

public class Employee
{
public Person person{get;set}
}

public class Model:Employee
{
}

...

...

Model model=new model();

Need to get the Names and values of properties of Person class via model class through reflection ....Please Help Iam stuck

Posted 21-Jun-15 4:22am

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Updated 21-Jun-15 4:27am

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Andreas Gieriet 21-Jun-15 13:54pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-06-21T04:42:00

Solution 1

Have a look at this: Converting a List to a DataTable[^] - it gets the property names and values.

Posted 21-Jun-15 4:42am

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Member 11665036 21-Jun-15 11:04am

OriginalGriff , thanks buddy for the quick response , i respect it , but i need to get it done through Reflection only , Data table will create problems for me .....

OriginalGriff 21-Jun-15 11:17am

For goodness sake - did you expect us to sit down and just write the code for you?
Follow the link, and look at the code - it's not complicated - and it takes a list of objects, extracts the property names and values and fills in a dataTable using them. Take out the datatable stuff, and what do you have left?

Member 11665036 21-Jun-15 12:42pm

dont ,panic ,i said it cant fit my needs , rest ur solution is best ,and i am not telling u to write the code for me , i said i have a problem which ur solution can't solve

Member 11665036 21-Jun-15 11:05am

Something like this, Obj.GetType().GetProperties();

Ralf Meier 21-Jun-15 13:38pm

Have you took a look to the linked solution of OriginalGriff ?
You don't need the Datatable - but all what you need is to be seen in the example ...

Ralf Meier · Answer 2 · 2015-06-21T07:42:00

Here is a VB-Solution - of course VB and not C# - but I normally work with VB.
But most of that, what is necessary for you, is .Net and should be easy converted to C# ...

VB

Public Shared Function GetProperty(ByVal component As Object, ByVal propertyName As String) As Object
    Try
        Dim pd As System.ComponentModel.PropertyDescriptor = System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(component)(propertyName)

        Return pd.GetValue(component)
    Catch
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function


Public Shared Function GetPropertyList(ByVal component As Object) As String()
    Dim pis As System.Reflection.PropertyInfo() = component.GetType().GetProperties()

    Dim myLen As Integer = pis.GetLength(0) - 1
    Dim myArray(myLen) As String
    For i As Integer = 0 To myLen
        myArray(i) = pis(i).Name
    Next

    Return myArray
End Function

But it is in fact nothing else as the posted Solution of OriginalGriff ...