Accessing a Collection Through Reflection

Question

Is there a way to iterate (through foreach preferably) over a collection using reflection? I\'m iterating over the properties in an object using reflection, and when the pr

Answer 1

I've tried to use a similar technique as Darren suggested, however just beware that not just collections implement IEnumerable. string for instance is also IEnumerable and will iterate over the characters.

Here's a small function I'm using to determine if an object is a collection (which will be enumerable as well since ICollection is also IEnumerable).

    public bool isCollection(object o)
    {
        return typeof(ICollection).IsAssignableFrom(o.GetType())
            || typeof(ICollection<>).IsAssignableFrom(o.GetType());
    }