Question

I am trying to get the values from multiple properties in an entity framework object. There are 11 properties, each with a date assigned to it. I’ve tried using reflection but I keep getting an error ” Object does not match target type”

 public void CheckWeekStatus()
    {
     var currentFlexi = from c in FlexiContext.FlexPeriods where c.FlexiCurrentYear == true select c;

     FlexPeriod s = new  FlexPeriod();

    PropertyInfo[] properties = s.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);

      foreach (var info in properties)
           {                     
             var o = info.GetValue(currentFlexi,null);                                        
           }
     }

FlexPeriod is the type that contains all the properties. I can loop through the properties but obviously I’m doing something wrong with the way I’m trying to access the values. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Firstly, you can get the Type without instantiating an object:

PropertyInfo[] properties = typeof( FlexPeriod ).GetProperties( ...

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The reason GetValue is failing is that currentFlexi is a collection of FlexPeriod objects ( actually an IEnumerable<FlexPeriod> ), not a single instance of FlexPeriod.