Recursively Get Properties & Child Properties Of A Class

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I was doing something like Recursively Get Properties & Child Properties Of An Object, but I wanted to use reflection recursively to get each properties. And I got the code from Recursively Print the properties. The problem with the code is: it only goes one level down, I wonder how can you automatically get all the properties using reflection? I just made up the following sample Container code: ``` public class Container { public Bottle MyBottle { get; set; } public List

Addresses { get; set; } public Container() { Address a = new Address(); a.AddressLine1 = "1 Main St"; a.AddressLine2 = "2 Main St"; Addresses = new List

(); Addresses.Add(a); MyBottle = new Bottle(); MyBottle.BottleName = "Big bottle"; MyBottle.BottageAge = 2; } } public class Bottle { public string BottleName { get; set; } public int BottageAge { get; set; } } public class Address { public string AddressLine1 { get; set; } public string AddressLine2 { get; set; } public List SpecialFo…

Accepted Answer

You have two problems with your code:

- because of condition `if (property.PropertyType.Assembly == objType.Assembly)` you will omit `System.Collections` like `List<>`

- you do not treat differently `propValue` that are collections. Hence it will print `List` properties, not its elements properties.

You can change that for example into:

```
public void PrintProperties(object obj, int indent)
{    
    if (obj == null) return;
    string indentString = new string(' ', indent);
    Type objType = obj.GetType();
    PropertyInfo[] properties = objType.GetProperties();
    foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
    {
        object propValue = property.GetValue(obj, null);
        var elems = propValue as IList;
        if (elems != null)
        {
            foreach (var item in elems)
            {
                PrintProperties(item, indent + 3);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // This will not cut-off System.Collections because of the first check
            if (property.PropertyType.Assembly == objType.Assembly)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}:", indentString, property.Name);

PrintProperties(propValue, indent + 2);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}: {2}", indentString, property.Name, propValue);
            }
        }
    }
}
```

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