Question

Lets say I have a LunchBox class with a property for FreezerPack that has a property for Name.

public class LunchBox
{
    public FreezerPack FreezerPack { get; set; }
}

public class FreezerPack
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

Using reflection, I can get FreezerPack like so:

var lunchBox = new LunchBox
{
    FreezerPack = new FreezerPack
    {
        Name = "I'm so cool"
    }
};

var freezerPack = typeof(LunchBox)
                    .GetProperty("FreezerPack")
                    .GetValue(lunchBox, null);

But how can I get Name from FreezerPack in LunchBox when all I have is LunchBox as T and a string with the property path “FreezerPack.Name”? .GetProperty("FreezerPack.Name") doesn’t seem to do the trick.

Answer 1

No, you need to reflect on the result of the FreezerPack:

var lunchBox = new LunchBox() { FreezerPack = new FreezerPack() { Name = "I'm so cool" } };
var freezerPack = typeof(LunchBox).GetProperty("FreezerPack").GetValue(lunchBox, null);
var freezerPackName = freezerPack.GetType().GetProperty("Name").GetValue(freezerPack, null);
Console.WriteLine(freezerPackName);