Question

Is there a way to enumerate or simply for each into a class’s member variables in .net ?
I have a static class, which i want to use for holding the application settings, so while saving the settings I basically want to copy the values of the Static Class to a Instance of a class containg the same set of (non-static) variables .

SO i thought “if only I could foreach or even for() (for that matter..pun unintended) it would be easier

Answer 1

from your description, Dictionary would be a good data type to store your application settings:

Dictionary<string, string> settings = new Dictionary<string, string>();
settings["key1"] = "value";
settings["key2"] = "value";

Dictionary<string, string> copy = new Dictionary<string, string>(settings);
copy["key1"] = "override value";
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kv in copy) {
  Console.WriteLine("Key {0} has value {1}", kv.Key, kv.Value);
}

a more low-level thing would be to use reflection to retrieve the class’s members or fields:

foreach (MemberInfo mi in Type.GetType(MyClass).GetMembers()) {
  Console.WriteLine("Member {0} has type {1}",
    mi.Name, mi.MemberType().ToString());
}