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Loop DynamicObject properties

I'm trying to understand the DynamicObject type. Found this MSDN article to be very consise and clear as how to create and use DynamicObject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dynamic.dynamicobject.aspx

The article contains a simple DynamicDictionary class that inherits from DynamicObject.

Now I want to iterate over my dynamically created DynamicObject properties:

dynamic d = new DynamicDictionary();
d.Name = "Myname";
d.Number = 1080;

foreach (var prop in d.GetType().GetProperties())
{
  Console.Write prop.Key;
  Console.Write prop.Value;
}

Obviously that does not work. I want to learn how to do this without a change in my DynamicDictionary class, since I'm really trying to learn how to use this for all kinds of existing objects that inherits from DynamicObject.

Is Reflection needed? I must be missing something...

Solution

  • Did you tried DynamicDictionary.GetDynamicMemberNames() method? - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.dynamic.dynamicobject.getdynamicmembernames.aspx