GetProperty reflection results in “Ambiguous match found” on new property

Question

How can I get my property? Currently an error is occuring of Ambiguous match found, see the comment line in code.

public class MyBaseEntity
{
           


        

Answer 1

The ambiguity occurs because of the new declaration in MyDerivedEntity. To overcome this you can use LINQ:

var type = myObject.GetType();
var colName = "MyEntity";
var all = type.GetProperties().Where(x => x.Name == colName);
var info = all.FirstOrDefault(x => x.DeclaringType == type) ?? all.First();

This will grab the property out of the derived type if it exists, otherwise the base. This can easily be flip-flopped if needed.