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

Just get the value of the property and then cast it into an IEnumerable. Here is some (untested) code to give you an idea:

ClassWithListProperty obj = new ClassWithListProperty();
obj.List.Add(1);
obj.List.Add(2);
obj.List.Add(3);

Type type = obj.GetType();
PropertyInfo listProperty = type.GetProperty("List", BindingFlags.Public);
IEnumerable listObject = (IEnumerable) listProperty.GetValue(obj, null);

foreach (int i in listObject)
    Console.Write(i); // should print out 123