Question

Suppose I’ve got the following program:

namespace ReflectionTest {     public class Example     {         private string field;          public void MethodOne() { }          public void MethodTwo() { }          public string Property         {             get { return field; }             set { this.field = value; }         }     }      class Program     {         static void Main(string[] args)         {             iterate(typeof(Example));              Console.ReadLine();         }          public static void iterate(Type type)         {             MethodInfo[] methods = type.GetMethods(                 BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly |                 BindingFlags.Instance |                 BindingFlags.Public);              foreach (MethodInfo mi in methods)             {                 Console.WriteLine(mi.Name);             }         }     } } 

When I run the program I’m getting the following output:

MethodOne MethodTwo get_Property set_Property

I want to skip the property accesor methods. I’ve tried with different BindingFlags, for instance, ~BindingFlags.SetProperty, but with no luck. At the moment the only way I’ve found to skip those methods is rewriting the iterate function to:

public static void iterate(Type type) {     MethodInfo[] methods = type.GetMethods(         BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly |         BindingFlags.Instance |         BindingFlags.Public);      foreach (MethodInfo mi in methods)     {         if (mi.IsSpecialName) continue;         Console.WriteLine(mi.Name);     } } 

Do you know what BindingFlags should I use?

Update:

Well, I should have explained that the project is actually for building automatically templates for unit testing, so I can skip all the special methods. Thanks for the additional information on IsSpecialName 🙂

LINQ? Really? Wow. Anyway, this project is .NET 2.0 so LINQ is (sadly) not an option.

Answer 1

From the top of my head:

mi.IsSpecialName &&( mi.Name.StartsWith('set_') || mi.Name.StartsWith('get_')) 

should get you all set. SpecialName is more than property accessors (event add/remove methods count here as well), that’s why you have to check the names as well.

You can use LINQ for that as well 🙂