Using Reflection to Access the Properties

Hi All,

In one of my coding requirement i need to map database fields to fields which user have been created self. I think a bit more on this and come with finally solution get gain of Reflection for fulfilling the requirement.

Here is how i get the list of Properties which i can map easily to User table to database, i used the GetProperties() method to achieve this things, then i do the Sorting on them to show in Sorted order, below is code snippet for this,

   39 User objUser = new User();

   40         Type t = objUser.GetType();

   41         PropertyInfo[] pi = t.GetProperties();

   42         Array.Sort(pi,

   43         delegate(PropertyInfo propertyInfo1, PropertyInfo propertyInfo2)

   44         { return propertyInfo1.Name.CompareTo(propertyInfo2.Name); });

   45 

   46         UserProperties = new List<string>();

   47         foreach (MemberInfo mi in pi)

   48         {

   49             UserProperties.Add(mi.Name);

   50         }

here User is my class which contains the properties of "User" table in database.

Reflections provides vast collections of Methods which we can utilize to access within code.

Happy Coding :)