Getting Nested Object Property Value Using Reflection

Question

I have the following two classes:

public class Address
{
    public string AddressLine1 { get; set; }
    public string AddressLine2 { get; set; }
    public         


        

Answer 1

Yet another variation to throw out there. Short & sweet, supports arbitrarily deep properties, handles null values and invalid properties:

public static object GetPropertyVal(this object obj, string name) {
    if (obj == null)
        return null;

    var parts = name.Split(new[] { '.' }, 2);
    var prop = obj.GetType().GetProperty(parts[0]);
    if (prop == null)
        throw new ArgumentException($"{parts[0]} is not a property of {obj.GetType().FullName}.");

    var val = prop.GetValue(obj);
    return (parts.Length == 1) ? val : val.GetPropertyVal(parts[1]);
}