Best way to get sub properties using GetProperty

Question

public class Address
{
    public string ZipCode {get; set;}
}

public class Customer
{
    public Address Address {get; set;}
}

how can I access e

Answer 1

Problem: Weakly Typed Variables:

@jonskeet's FollowPropertyPath(...) method almost met my needs exactly; except that my property was weakly typed; therefore, currentType = property.PropertyType simply returned System.Object and failed on the next iteration of the foreach-loop.

Solution: To use the runtime type rather than the design-time type, I adjusted the method as follows:

public static object FollowPropertyPath(object value, string path)
{
    Type currentType = value.GetType();

    foreach (string propertyName in path.Split('.'))
    {
        PropertyInfo property = currentType.GetProperty(propertyName);
        value = property.GetValue(value, null);
        currentType = value.GetType();    // <-- Change
    }
    return value;
}