How to get properties of base class using reflection

Question

Hello,

Is there any way to get all the properties of the class including the properties which is in its base class.

Currently I am using this code but it only gives me properties of the particular class only.

   TypeInfo info = typeof(DerivedClass).GetTypeInfo();

        IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> pList = info.DeclaredProperties;

    foreach (var valueCheck in pList)
     {
           if (valueCheck.GetValue(objectofderivedclass, null) == null)
             valueCheck.SetValue(objectofderivedclass, "");
      }

Thanks in advance.

  

Answer 1

My first thought is: why don't you just use recursion?

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Answer 2

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the reply, It will be helpful if you can post some code here.

I tried the code as mention here, but As there is no GetMembers() method I find it difficult to iterate to the base class.

Answer 3

Here's some code I wrote to do this:

IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> GetAllProperties(Type T)
{
  IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> PropertyList = T.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredProperties;
  if (T.GetTypeInfo().BaseType != null)
  {
    PropertyList = PropertyList.Concat(GetAllProperties(T.GetTypeInfo().BaseType));
  }
  return PropertyList;
}

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
If my reply answers your question, please mark this post as answered.

NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.