How do I get the value of MemberInfo?

Question

How do I get the value of a MemberInfo object? .Name returns the name of the variable, but I need the value.

I think you can do this with

Answer 1

Jon's answer is ideal - just one observation: as part of general design, I would:

1. generally avoid reflecting against non-public members
2. avoid having public fields (almost always)

The upshot of these two is that generally you only need to reflect against public properties (you shouldn't be calling methods unless you know what they do; property getters are expected to be idempotent [lazy loading aside]). So for a PropertyInfo this is just prop.GetValue(obj, null);.

Actually, I'm a big fan of System.ComponentModel, so I would be tempted to use:

    foreach(PropertyDescriptor prop in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(obj))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0}={1}", prop.Name, prop.GetValue(obj));
    }

or for a specific property:

    PropertyDescriptor prop = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(obj)["SomeProperty"];
    Console.WriteLine("{0}={1}", prop.Name, prop.GetValue(obj));

One advantage of System.ComponentModel is that it will work with abstracted data models, such as how a DataView exposes columns as virtual properties; there are other tricks too (like performance tricks).