Get Server Property Names Programatically?

[clintonG]

Somebody help me learn which class and methods may be used to get the names
of all properties for a given server control? Thank you...

 

[Derek Harmon]

Somebody help me learn which class and methods may be used to get the names
of all properties for a given server control? Thank you...

Clinton,

The classes you should look at are in the System.Reflection namespace. Usually,
you'll start out by calling GetType( ) on an object (it can be any object, it doesn't
need to be a server Control) and from a Type object you can query all sorts of
CLR metadata on that type such as it's properties.

using System.Reflection;
// . . .
PropertyInfo[ ] props = serverControl1.GetType( ).GetProperties( );

Gets you all of the public instance properties on the serverControl1's Type as
an array of PropertyInfo objects (which have properties like Name and
PropertyType that describe the nature of the property).


Derek Harmon

 

[clintonG]

Thanks Derek. I was using the Object browser and wondering how to read
properties in code as I think that's going to be the most expedient
methodology for those interested in generating ASP.NET 2.0 .skin files for
any given theme.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

Somebody help me learn which class and methods may be used to get the names
of all properties for a given server control? Thank you...

Clinton,

The classes you should look at are in the System.Reflection namespace. Usually,
you'll start out by calling GetType( ) on an object (it can be any object, it doesn't
need to be a server Control) and from a Type object you can query all sorts of
CLR metadata on that type such as it's properties.

using System.Reflection;
// . . .
PropertyInfo[ ] props = serverControl1.GetType( ).GetProperties( );

Gets you all of the public instance properties on the serverControl1's Type as
an array of PropertyInfo objects (which have properties like Name and
PropertyType that describe the nature of the property).


Derek Harmon