How to iterate thought all properties of a class

The purpose of this article is to describe some of the practical uses of the Reflection.

Reflection is an important resource of the .NET Framework and enables us to get information about objects at runtime. In this article we will iterate thought all of the properties of a class named Person using Reflection.

The Person class extends object and does not implement any interface. It is a simple class used just to hold information about a Person.

The following C# .NET code shows how to do it. (or download the solution: http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/fernandovezzali/ReflectionProject.zip)

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Person oPerson = new Person();
        oPerson.iAge = 27;
        oPerson.sName = "Fernando Vezzali";
        PropertyInfo[] properties = oPerson.GetType().GetProperties();
        foreach (PropertyInfo oPropertyInfo in properties)
        {
            MethodInfo oMethodInfo = oPerson.GetType().GetMethod("get_" + oPropertyInfo.Name);
            ParameterInfo[] ArrParameterInfo = oPerson.GetType().GetMethod("get_" + oPropertyInfo.Name).GetParameters();
            Console.WriteLine(oPropertyInfo.Name + " = " + oMethodInfo.Invoke(oPerson, ArrParameterInfo));
        }
        Console.Read();
    }
}

class Person
{
    private int _iAge;
    private string _sName;

    public int iAge
    {
        get { return _iAge; }
        set { _iAge = value; }
    }
    public string sName
    {
        get { return _sName; }
        set { _sName = value; }
    }
}

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