Accessing C# property name or attributes

Question

I would like to automatically generate SQL statements from a class instance. The method should look like Update(object[] Properties, object PrimaryKeyProperty). The method is pa

Answer 1

Not 100% sure if this will get you what you're looking for, this will fetch all properties with [Column] attribute inside your class: In the datacontext I have:

 public ReadOnlyCollection ColumnNames( )
    {
        return this.Mapping.MappingSource.GetModel(typeof(DataContext)).GetMetaType(typeof(TEntity)).DataMembers;
    }

Fetching the table column-names that are properties inside the class:

       MyDataContext db = GetDataContext(); 
       var allColumnPropertyNames =   db.ColumnNames().Where(n => n.Member.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(System.Data.Linq.Mapping.ColumnAttribute), false).FirstOrDefault() != null).Select(n => n.Name);