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Get the names of all the properties of an object

    

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#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Reflection;

//using Dotnet.Commons.Lang;


namespace Dotnet.Commons.Reflection
{
  ///  
  /// <summary>
  /// This class contains utility methods that perform operations on object properties. 
  /// </summary>
  /// 
  /// <remarks> 
  ///  Copyright 2006 by Edward Lim.
  /// All rights reserved.
  /// </remarks>
  /// 
  public sealed class PropertyUtils
  {
    private PropertyUtils()  {}



    /// --------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Get the names of all the properties of an object
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="srcObj">the object to retreive the properties' names from</param>
    /// <returns>an array of property names</returns>
    /// --------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static string[] GetPropertyNames(object srcObj)
    {
      if (srcObj == null)
        throw new System.ArgumentNullException("srcObj");
      
      return GetPropertyNames(srcObj.GetType());

    }
    
    /// --------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Get the names of all the properties of a type
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="objType">the type to retreive the properties' names from</param>
    /// <returns>an array of property names</returns>
    /// --------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static string[] GetPropertyNames(Type objType)
    {
      
      if (objType == null)
        throw new System.ArgumentNullException("objType");

      string[] propertyNames = new string[objType.GetProperties().Length];

      for (int i=0; i< objType.GetProperties().Length; i++)
      {
        propertyNames[i] = ((PropertyInfo)objType.GetProperties().GetValue(i)).Name;
      }

      return propertyNames;
    }
    }
}

   
    
    
    
  








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