Get string name of property using reflection

Question

There is a whole wealth of reflection examples out there that allow you to get either:

1. All properties in a class

2. A single property, provided you kn

Answer 1

myClassInstance.GetType().GetProperties() gives you PropertyInfo instances for all public properties for myClassInstance's type. (See MSDN for documentation and other overloads.) ´PropertyInfo.Name´ is the actual name of the property. In case you already know the name of the property use GetProperty(name) to retrieve its PropertyInfo object (see MSDN again).