.NET, C#, Reflection: list the fields of a field that, itself, has fields

Question

In .NET & C#, suppose ClassB has a field that is of type ClassA. One can easily use method GetFields to list ClassB\'

Answer 1

Here's a naive implementation:

    private static void ListFields(Type type)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(type.Name);
        foreach (var field in type.GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} of type {1}", field.Name, field.FieldType.Name));
            if (field.FieldType.IsClass)
            {
                ListFields(field.FieldType);
            }

        }
    }

Some things to note:

• Prevent a stack overflow. That is if a -> b and b-> a then this will blow up. You can resolve this by only resolving down to a certain level
• A string is a reference type but lots of people expect it to be more like a value type. So you might not want to call ListFields if the type is string.