Question

I have some doubt about the title, but I couldn’t come up with anything better.

Say I have the following enum

public enum ClassProperties
{
     Primary = 0,
     Secondary = 1,
}

And a class that looks this

public class Test
{
    Primary { get { return _primary; }}
    Secondary { get { return _secondary; }}
    // more irrelevant properties
}

Now somewhere along the line I need to iterate over the enumeration and use each item in it to get the property, like so:

foreach(ClassProperties myProp = Enum.GetValues(typeof(ClassProperties)))
{
    Test t = new Test();
    t.myProp // <- this is what I'm after
    // so if myProp equals Primary,
    // t.Primary is called...
}

This would give you an idea of what I’m trying to do, but trying it makes me feel dirty like a bum who just wet himself. It just doesn’t feel right.

Answer 1

Well you could use Reflection to retrieve the properties. This will then locate the property based on its name.

Test t = new Test();
Type testType = t.GetType();
PropertyInfo[] properties = testType.GetProperties();

For more see GetProperties() method & the returned PropertyInfo type.