c# foreach (property in object)… Is there a simple way of doing this?

Question

I have a class containing several properties (all are strings if it makes any difference).
I also have a list, which contains many different instances of the class.

Answer 1

A copy-paste solution (extension methods) mostly based on earlier responses to this question.

Also properly handles IDicitonary (ExpandoObject/dynamic) which is often needed when dealing with this reflected stuff.

Not recommended for use in tight loops and other hot paths. In those cases you're gonna need some caching/IL emit/expression tree compilation.

    public static IEnumerable<(string Name, object Value)> GetProperties(this object src)
    {
        if (src is IDictionary dictionary)
        {
            return dictionary.Select(x => (x.Key, x.Value));
        }
        return src.GetObjectProperties().Select(x => (x.Name, x.GetValue(src)));
    }

    public static IEnumerable GetObjectProperties(this object src)
    {
        return src.GetType()
            .GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance)
            .Where(p => !p.GetGetMethod().GetParameters().Any());
    }