C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference

586 ❘ CHAPTER 26 Reflection
The GetSetPersonProperties example program, which is shown in Figure 26-2 and available for
download on this book’s website, uses reflection to get and set a Person class’s fields and properties.
Figure 26-2: The
GetSetPersonProperties example
program uses reflection to get
and set property and field values.
The program uses the following simple Person class.
public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public string Street, City, State, Zip;
}
Most of the program’s code creates the Labels and TextBoxes that it uses to display property and
field values. The following code shows how the program gets values. To save space, I removed the
code that creates the Labels and TextBoxes. Download the example to see all the details.
// The Person object.
private Person ThePerson = new Person()
{
FirstName = "Rufus",
LastName = "Firefly",
Street = "1933 Duck Soup Pl",
City = "Hollywood",
State = "CA",
Zip = "90027"
};
// The Labels and TextBoxes we create.
private List Labels;
private List TextBoxes;
// Display the object's fields and properties.
private void getValuesButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// List fields and properties.
foreach (MemberInfo info in ThePerson.GetType().FindMembers(
MemberTypes.Field | MemberTypes.Property,
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