Question

I have my winform application gathering data using databinding. Everything looks fine except that I have to link the property with the textedit using a string:

Me.TextEdit4.DataBindings.Add(New System.Windows.Forms.Binding(‘EditValue’, Me.MyClassBindingSource, ‘MyClassProperty’, True))

This works fine but if I change the class’ property name, the compiler obviously will not warn me .

I would like to be able to get the property name by reflection but I don’t know how to specify the name of the property I want (I only know how to iterate among all the properties of the class)

Any idea?

Answer 1

Here is an example of what I’m talking about:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property)] class TextProperyAttribute: Attribute {}  class MyTextBox {     [TextPropery]     public string Text { get; set;}     public int Foo { get; set;}     public double Bar { get; set;} }   static string GetTextProperty(Type type) {     foreach (PropertyInfo info in type.GetProperties())     {         if (info.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(TextProperyAttribute), true).Length > 0)         {             return info.Name;         }     }      return null; }  ...  Type type = typeof (MyTextBox);  string name = GetTextProperty(type);  Console.WriteLine(name); // Prints 'Text'