Comments on: .Net: The limits of using Reflection

By: Prodip Saha

Prodip Saha — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:03:26 +0000

Very nice article and you rendered it meaningfully. I liked your emphasis on Observer Effect and once can potentially alter the state of an object (possibly without knowing). I was able to get the value of integer indexer. You are correct- there is no way to know the length or count. You have to try/catch to get the value just to get the number of iterations and go for the loop there after. Now I can see how the Observer Effect can play a role there too.

My suggestion to implementers, don't use non integer indexed property if you are going to use reflection to get the values.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:50 +0000

Very interesting things was highlighting by you! Thank you, really big good thank!

By: Michael Mortensen

Michael Mortensen — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:37:10 +0000

This was a very nice article, and as you articles sugested; I am screwed :-)

Keep up the good work!

By: Renaud

Renaud — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:41:09 +0000

@Phil: thanks. I'm glad you found it useful.

By: Phil Hackett

Phil Hackett — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:45:55 +0000

Thanks for that Renaud - a smart article. I was trying to suss out how to detect whether a property uses an indexer using reflection, and your article covered it nicely. And was an interesting read as well. Good job, sir!

By: Paul Chavez

Paul Chavez — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:53:08 +0000

Nice article man, it's exactly what I needed to know... had been trying MSDN docs for a while with no luck. Once again, a blogger saves the day! ;-)

By: Renaud

Renaud — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:56:22 +0000

Hi Andy, you should be able to reflect on the collection items just as you do for any type. When I have some time I'll try to post a new article on reflection. Can't promise when though.. busy at the moment. Thanks.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:17:34 +0000

HI, Here in my project a class is there which has public properties and in that properties there is one property which returns a collecton and in that collection again there are fields . Here what Iam facing is Iam getting all the properties except the inner fields of that Collection property ....Can you help me out? Thanks Andy.

By: Javier Callico

Javier Callico — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:37:45 +0000

Very nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Chris Lively

Chris Lively — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:32:00 +0000

Thanks for figuring this out. I've been pulling my hair out.

By: Hugh Tucker

Hugh Tucker — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:37:21 +0000

Thanks -I've been trying to find the value of my index all day and nothing mentioned that it cannot be done - fortunately I found your VERY good explanation thanks

(its a: "you can't get to there from here"!)

Cheers Hugh

By: Eric Gero

Eric Gero — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:50:08 +0000

This was a nice article. I was having an issue trying to use reflection with c#, I am a Java developer, so the concept was there, just not the details. After reading severl articles, yours was the one that made the most sense.

Thanks