Using PropertyInfo to find out the property type

Question

I want to dynamically parse an object tree to do some custom validation. The validation is not important as such, but I want to understand the PropertyInfo class better.

Answer 1

Use PropertyInfo.PropertyType to get the type of the property.

public bool ValidateData(object data)
{
    foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in data.GetType().GetProperties())
    {
        if (propertyInfo.PropertyType == typeof(string))
        {
            string value = propertyInfo.GetValue(data, null);

            if value is not OK
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }            

    return true;
}