Question

I”m try to find something similar to the treeview built into Visual Studio that lets you traverse a class. Is there a basic library/class that basically contains a tree with Reflected data that iterates through a class and its subclasses? I want code, I’m not interested in separate applications.

I don’t think it would be that difficult to implement with reflection, but I’m hoping somebody else has already done it.

Answer 1

If you just want ot iterate through nested class here is an example

    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof (DateTime));
        foreach (var exportedType in assembly.GetExportedTypes())
        {
            var parentNode = treeView1.Nodes.Add(exportedType.Name);
            AddNodes(exportedType, parentNode);
        }
    }

    private void AddNodes(Type type,TreeNode node)
    {
        foreach (var nestedType in type.GetNestedTypes())
        {
            var nestedNode = node.Nodes.Add(nestedType.Name);
            AddNodes(nestedType, nestedNode);
        }
    }

Maybe you also want some info about Methods , Properties e.t.c in that case you can use

    type.GetProperties();
    type.GetMethods();
    type.GetMembers();
    type.GetEvents();
    type.GetInterfaces();