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Gets a property's parent object

    
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#region Usings
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Collections;
#endregion

namespace Utilities
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Utility class that handles various
    /// functions dealing with reflection.
    /// </summary>
    public static class Reflection
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a property's parent object
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="SourceObject">Source object</param>
        /// <param name="PropertyPath">Path of the property (ex: Prop1.Prop2.Prop3 would be
        /// the Prop1 of the source object, which then has a Prop2 on it, which in turn
        /// has a Prop3 on it.)</param>
        /// <param name="PropertyInfo">Property info that is sent back</param>
        /// <returns>The property's parent object</returns>
        public static object GetPropertyParent(object SourceObject, string PropertyPath, out PropertyInfo PropertyInfo)
        {
            try
            {
                if (SourceObject == null)
                {
                    PropertyInfo = null;
                    return null;
                }
                string[] Splitter = { "." };
                string[] SourceProperties = PropertyPath.Split(Splitter, StringSplitOptions.None);
                object TempSourceProperty = SourceObject;
                Type PropertyType = SourceObject.GetType();
                PropertyInfo = PropertyType.GetProperty(SourceProperties[0]);
                PropertyType = PropertyInfo.PropertyType;
                for (int x = 1; x < SourceProperties.Length; ++x)
                {
                    if (TempSourceProperty != null)
                    {
                        TempSourceProperty = PropertyInfo.GetValue(TempSourceProperty, null);
                    }
                    PropertyInfo = PropertyType.GetProperty(SourceProperties[x]);
                    PropertyType = PropertyInfo.PropertyType;
                }
                return TempSourceProperty;
            }
            catch { throw; }
        }

    }
}

   
    
    
    
  

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