Using reflection to set a property of a property of an object

Question

I\'ve got two classes.

public class Class1 {
   public string value {get;set;}
}

public class Class2 {
   public Class1 myClass1Object {get;set;}
}
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Answer 1

I was looking for answers to the case where to Get a property value, when the property name is given, but the nesting level of the property is not known.

Eg. if the input is "value" instead of providing a fully qualified property name like "myClass1Object.value".

Your answers inspired my recursive solution below:

public static object GetPropertyValue(object source, string property)
{
    PropertyInfo prop = source.GetType().GetProperty(property);
    if(prop == null)
    {
      foreach(PropertyInfo propertyMember in source.GetType().GetProperties())
      { 
         object newSource = propertyMember.GetValue(source, null);
         return GetPropertyValue(newSource, property);
      }
    }
    else
    {
       return prop.GetValue(source,null);
    }
    return null;
}