Question

I have a class that contains about 500 String members and I’d like to “reset” them all by setting them to String.Empty. Can anybody tell me how to do this using reflection so I can iterate over every String member ?

Thanks

Answer 1

foreach (PropertyInfo pi in MyObj.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic ).ToArray() )
            {
                if (pi.PropertyType == typeof(string))
                {
                    pi.SetValue(MyObj, string.Empty, null);
                }
            }

For fields use

foreach (FieldInfo fi in MyObj.GetType().GetFields(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic ).ToArray() )
            {
                if (fi.FieldType == typeof(string))
                {
                    fi.SetValue(MyObj, string.Empty);
                }
            }