How do I get the name of a property from a property in C# (2.0)

Question

I know I could have an attribute but that\'s more work than I want to go to... and not general enough.

I want to do something like

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Answer 1

What you are trying to do is not possible. Using reflection you can:

• Get a property, field or method's details from it's string name.
• Get a list of all properties, fields or methods for a given type.

Your GetName method, when called, is passed a string. The GetMethod will know about the string but retains no source property meta data.

Out of interest, why are you trying to do this?