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Joan Venge
Joan Venge

Reputation: 331052

Type.GetProperties method gives empty array

I have a class like this:

class ItemList
{
    Int64 Count { get; set; }
}

and when I write this:

ItemList list = new ItemList ( );
Type type = list.GetType ( );
PropertyInfo [ ] props = type.GetProperties ( );

I get an empty array for props.

Why? Is it because GetProperties() doesn't include automatic properties?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4968

Answers (1)

JaredPar
JaredPar

Reputation: 754745

The problem is that GetProperties will only return Public properties by default. In C#, members are not public by default (I believe they are internal). Try this instead

var props = type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

The BindingFlags enumeration is fairly flexible. The above combination will return all non-public instance properties on the type. What you likely want though is all instance properties regardless of accessibility. In that case try the following 

var flags = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic;
var props = type.GetProperties(flags);

Upvotes: 18

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