c# foreach (property in object)… Is there a simple way of doing this?

Question

I have a class containing several properties (all are strings if it makes any difference).
I also have a list, which contains many different instances of the class.

Answer 1

I couldn't get any of the above ways to work, but this worked. The username and password for DirectoryEntry are optional.

   private List<string> getAnyDirectoryEntryPropertyValue(string userPrincipalName, string propertyToSearchFor)
    {
        List<string> returnValue = new List<string>();
        try
        {
            int index = userPrincipalName.IndexOf("@");
            string originatingServer = userPrincipalName.Remove(0, index + 1);
            string path = "LDAP://" + originatingServer; //+ @"/" + distinguishedName;
            DirectoryEntry objRootDSE = new DirectoryEntry(path, PSUsername, PSPassword);
            var objSearcher = new System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher(objRootDSE);
            objSearcher.Filter = string.Format("(&(UserPrincipalName={0}))", userPrincipalName);
            SearchResultCollection properties = objSearcher.FindAll();

            ResultPropertyValueCollection resPropertyCollection = properties[0].Properties[propertyToSearchFor];
            foreach (string resProperty in resPropertyCollection)
            {
                returnValue.Add(resProperty);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            returnValue.Add(ex.Message);
            throw;
        }

        return returnValue;
    }

Answer 2

Give this a try:

foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in obj.GetType().GetProperties())
{
   // do stuff here
}

Also please note that Type.GetProperties() has an overload which accepts a set of binding flags so you can filter out properties on a different criteria like accessibility level, see MSDN for more details: Type.GetProperties Method (BindingFlags) Last but not least don't forget to add the "system.Reflection" assembly reference.

For instance to resolve all public properties:

foreach (var propertyInfo in obj.GetType()
                                .GetProperties(
                                        BindingFlags.Public 
                                        | BindingFlags.Instance))
{
   // do stuff here
}

Please let me know whether this works as expected.

Answer 3

You can loop through all non-indexed properties of an object like this:

var s = new MyObject();
foreach (var p in s.GetType().GetProperties().Where(p => !p.GetGetMethod().GetParameters().Any())) {
    Console.WriteLine(p.GetValue(s, null));
}

Since GetProperties() returns indexers as well as simple properties, you need an additional filter before calling GetValue to know that it is safe to pass null as the second parameter.

You may need to modify the filter further in order to weed out write-only and otherwise inaccessible properties.