Question

I’m having some trouble getting a static property through reflection in .NET 4.0.

Say for example I have the following classes:

class Foo
{
    public static int MyProperty
    {
        get { return 1234; }
    }
}

class Bar : Foo
{

}

Now if I call:

typeof(Foo).GetProperties();

I get the expected list of one property, “MyProperty”. If instead I call:

typeof(Bar).GetProperties();

I get nothing. Unfortunately I’m dealing strictly with values stored as Type data types, so I can’t directly call typeof(Foo).GetProperties().

Thanks for any help!
godwin

Answer 1

You can specify BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy to get static properties declared in a base class:

var props = typeof(Bar).GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public |
                                      BindingFlags.Static | 
                                      BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy);