Question

For example I have a simple class like

public class Person{      public int Age {get;set;}     public string Name {get;set;} } 

I need to make a method that takes any class and spits out values of properties set in the object as a string in format ‘Age:35;Name:John Doe;’

I am looking for a method signature on the lines of

public string SpitNameValuePairs<T>()  

or something like it. How can this be done efficiently if using reflection?

Answer 1

That have protection from crashes when property have an indexer defined and also it output only instance properties (no static).

    private static string SplitNameValuePairs<T>(T value)     {         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();          foreach (PropertyInfo property in typeof(T).GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic))         {             if (property.GetIndexParameters().Length == 0)                 sb.AppendFormat('{0}:{1};', property.Name, property.GetValue(value, null));         }         return sb.ToString();     }