How to display methods and properties using reflection in C#?

Reflection is the process of describing the metadata of types, methods and fields in a code. The namespace System.Reflection enables you to obtain data about the loaded assemblies, the elements within them like classes, methods and value types. There are numerous classes of System.Reflection but the most commonly used ones are Assembly, AssemblyName, ConstructorInfo, MethodInfo, ParameterInfo, EventInfo, PropertyInfo, and MemberInfo.

Example

static void Main(string[] args){
   TypeInfo myType = typeof(TextInfo).GetTypeInfo();
   IEnumerable<PropertyInfo> properties = myType.DeclaredProperties;
   IEnumerable<MethodInfo> methods = myType.DeclaredMethods;
   Console.WriteLine(myType);
   Console.WriteLine(properties);
   Console.WriteLine(methods);
   StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
   Console.WriteLine();
   strBuilder.Append("The properties are:");
   foreach (PropertyInfo p in properties){
      strBuilder.Append("\n" + p.Name);
   }
   strBuilder.Append("\n");
   strBuilder.Append("\nThe methods are:");
   foreach (MethodInfo m in methods){
      strBuilder.Append("\n" + m.Name);
   }
   Console.WriteLine(strBuilder);
}

Output

System.Globalization.TextInfo
System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[]
System.Reflection.MethodInfo[]
The properties are:
Invariant
ANSICodePage
OEMCodePage
MacCodePage
EBCDICCodePage
LCID
CultureName
IsReadOnly
ListSeparator
IsAsciiCasingSameAsInvariant
IsRightToLeft
The methods are:
get_Invariant
get_ANSICodePage
get_OEMCodePage
get_MacCodePage
get_EBCDICCodePage
get_LCID
get_CultureName
get_IsReadOnly
get_ListSeparator
set_ListSeparator
get_IsAsciiCasingSameAsInvariant
get_IsRightToLeft
System.Runtime.Serialization.IDeserializationCallback.OnDeserialization
Clone
ReadOnly
VerifyWritable
SetReadOnlyState
ToLower
ToLower
ChangeCase
ChangeCaseToLower
ChangeCaseToUpper
ChangeCaseCommon
ChangeCaseCommon
ChangeCaseCommon
ToLowerAsciiInvariant
ToLowerAsciiInvariant
ToUpperAsciiInvariant
ToUpperAsciiInvariant
ToLowerAsciiInvariant
ToUpper
ToUpper
ToUpperAsciiInvariant
IsAscii
PopulateIsAsciiCasingSameAsInvariant
Equals
GetHashCode
ToString
ToTitleCase
AddNonLetter
AddTitlecaseLetter
IsWordSeparator
IsLetterCategory
FinishInitialization
ChangeCase
IsInvariantLocale

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Published on 05-Dec-2020 06:43:30

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