How to enumerate all dependency properties of control?

Question

I have some WPF control. For example, TextBox. How to enumerate all dependency properties of that control (like XAML editor does)?

Answer 1

You can use reflection, via the GetFields, method to find all the public static properties on TextBox. You can then use a Linq Where clause to filter these to any of type DependencyProperty:

  var flags = BindingFlags.Static |
              BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy |
              BindingFlags.Public;
  var dependencyProperties = typeof(TextBox).GetFields(flags)
                     .Where(f => f.FieldType == typeof(DependencyProperty));

You can then transform this to a list of names via a Select:

  var dependencyProperties = typeof(TextBox).GetFields(flags)
                     .Where(f => f.FieldType == typeof(DependencyProperty))
                     .Select(dp => dp.Name);

Note: each name has a 'Property' suffix, you can of course remove this in the above Select clause if you like.