Reflection: Type Methods and Properties

[Jon Stonecash]

If I define a type and then declare an instance of that type in my code,
Intellisence will show me the methods, properties, fields, etc. defined by by
type. If I get the Type instance for my type and use GetProperties, I get the
properties that I expect. If, on the other hand, I use GetMethods, I get a
numer of entries that I do not expect. Specifically, I get the set_ and Get_
methods for the properties. Clearly Intellisence can figure out that these
extra methods are not to be displayed. What I cannot figure out is how to
determine that the set_MyProperty method is actually a part of a property.

Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?

Jon Stonecash
Rainier Technology, Inc.

[Mattias Sjögren]

Jon,

>Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?

Take a look at the GetMethods overload that takes a BindingFlags
parameter. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe you can use it to
specify which methods to include.


Matt

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[Jon Stonecash]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:00:45 GMT, mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org (Mattias
Sjögren) wrote:

>Jon,
>
>>Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?
>
>Take a look at the GetMethods overload that takes a BindingFlags
>parameter. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe you can use it to
>specify which methods to include.
>
>
>Matt
>
>====================================
>Mattias Sjögren - mattias @ mvps.org
>http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/
>
>CodeHound - The Software Developer's Search Engine
>http://www.codehound.com

Interesting suggestion, but no cigar. While there are a whole bunch of binding
flags, the documentation and my non-exhaustive testing suggest that only the
Public, Nonpublic, Instance, Static, and DeclaredOnly flags have any effect on
the GetMethods and GetMembers methods. Unfortunately, the effects are not the
ones that I want. I learned some more about dotnet but not what I wanted.

Thnaks for the effort.

Jon Stonecash
Rainier Technology, Inc.

[Bill McCarthy]

Hi Jon,

Try getting all the methods, and store them in a list or hashtable etc. Next
get all the properties. For each property call on the getGetter and
GetSetter and do a test against each member in you first list (or do a
Contains lookup).


"Jon Stonecash" <jon.stonecash@rainier.com> wrote in message
news:rmpl8tkbq46uuk4o5ve9url0g054nvcrl1@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:00:45 GMT, mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org (Mattias
> Sjögren) wrote:
>
> >Jon,
> >
> >>Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?
> >
> >Take a look at the GetMethods overload that takes a BindingFlags
> >parameter. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe you can use it to
> >specify which methods to include.
> >
> >
> >Matt
> >
> >====================================
> >Mattias Sjögren - mattias @ mvps.org
> >http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/
> >
> >CodeHound - The Software Developer's Search Engine
> >http://www.codehound.com
>
> Interesting suggestion, but no cigar. While there are a whole bunch of
binding
> flags, the documentation and my non-exhaustive testing suggest that only
the
> Public, Nonpublic, Instance, Static, and DeclaredOnly flags have any
effect on
> the GetMethods and GetMembers methods. Unfortunately, the effects are not
the
> ones that I want. I learned some more about dotnet but not what I wanted.
>
> Thnaks for the effort.
>
> Jon Stonecash
> Rainier Technology, Inc.
>

[Jon Stonecash]

Bill,

What you suggested works. I must say that it seems awkward to do it that way.
It means that I have to build a list of methods, pass each get and set method
against the list, and substract out the stuff that I do not want. I have to do
this for both properties and events. I keep thinking that there must be a
shorter way to get from here to there.

Thanks for the help.

Jon Stonecash


On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:31:49 +1100, "Bill McCarthy" <Bill_McC@iprimus.com.au>
wrote:

>Hi Jon,
>
>Try getting all the methods, and store them in a list or hashtable etc. Next
>get all the properties. For each property call on the getGetter and
>GetSetter and do a test against each member in you first list (or do a
>Contains lookup).
>
>
>"Jon Stonecash" <jon.stonecash@rainier.com> wrote in message
>news:rmpl8tkbq46uuk4o5ve9url0g054nvcrl1@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:00:45 GMT, mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org (Mattias
>> Sjögren) wrote:
>>
>> >Jon,
>> >
>> >>Can anyone out there point me in the right direction?
>> >
>> >Take a look at the GetMethods overload that takes a BindingFlags
>> >parameter. I haven't tried it myself, but I believe you can use it to
>> >specify which methods to include.
>> >
>> >
>> >Matt
>> >
>> >====================================
>> >Mattias Sjögren - mattias @ mvps.org
>> >http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/
>> >
>> >CodeHound - The Software Developer's Search Engine
>> >http://www.codehound.com
>>
>> Interesting suggestion, but no cigar. While there are a whole bunch of
>binding
>> flags, the documentation and my non-exhaustive testing suggest that only
>the
>> Public, Nonpublic, Instance, Static, and DeclaredOnly flags have any
>effect on
>> the GetMethods and GetMembers methods. Unfortunately, the effects are not
>the
>> ones that I want. I learned some more about dotnet but not what I wanted.
>>
>> Thnaks for the effort.
>>
>> Jon Stonecash
>> Rainier Technology, Inc.
>>
>