Question

I have a 3rd party object that gets passed to one of my methods. The object contains 20 or so string members. How can I easily list all of the string names and their values?

Answer 1

Are you talking about properties? If so, you can use reflection:

Dim properties = theObject.GetType().GetProperties()
For Each prop In properties
    Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", prop.Name, _
        prop.GetValue(theObject, New Object() { }))
Next

This returns all public properties of the object via GetProperties.