MemberInfo class provides a quick look of all the members in a Type. Below is the same code to get all members of a Type.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Type type = typeof(Program);
foreach(MemberInfo member in type.GetMembers())
{
Console.WriteLine(member.Name + ":" + member.MemberType);
}
}MemberInfo MemberType property
MemberInfo provides a property name called MemberType which returns an enum of MemberTypes. MemberTypes specify the type of a Member whether it is property, enum, constructor, method, and NestedType.
Enumeration list of MemberTypes are show below:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Constructor | Member is a constructor |
| Event | Member is an event |
| Field | Member is a field |
| Method | Member is a method |
| Property | Member is a property |
| TypeInfo | Member is a type |
| Custom | Member is a custom |
| NestedType | Member is a nested type |
| All | Specifies all member types. Used in search scenarios |
BindingFlags Enum
By calling the GetMembers() you will only get the public and public static members of a Type. If we want to get the private and protected members of the type, we have to specify BindingFlags enum value in the GetMembers() method as a parameter.
BindingFlags provides us number of ways by which we can search for members in a C# reflection.
Some important BindingFlags enumeration list are:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| IgnoreClase | Ignore the case(uppercase or lowercase) in search term |
| DeclaredOnly | Search for members specify in the current type not in the base hierarchy |
| Instance | Search for instance members |
| Static | Search for static members |
| Public | Search for public members |
| NonPublic | Search for non public members like private and protected |
Below is the search code for searching public, private protected, static and instance members.
type.GetMembers(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance); //get public members
type.GetMembers(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance); //get private and protected members
type.GetMembers(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static); //get public and static members
type.GetMembers(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static); //get not public and static members