Reflect on a property of a property

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

1 Nov 2007 6:26 PM

Barry Gilbert

I have a class that has a property of a type of another class. Like this:

Public Class Employee
   Public Property Shift As Shift
   ' Get and set stuff
   End Property
End Class

Public Class Shift
   Public Property ShiftId As Integer
   ' Get and set stuff
   End Property
End Class

Using reflection, I need to be able to get to the value contained in ShiftId
from looking at an Employee object. I've come close, but I cannot get the
right syntax. Here's what I have so far (this is in a base class):

Dim myType As Type=Me.GetType
For Each mi As MemberInfo In itemType.GetMembers(BindingFlags.Public Or _
                BindingFlags.SetProperty Or BindingFlags.Instance Or _
                BindingFlags.Static Or BindingFlags.NonPublic) myType.GetProperty(mi.Name).GetValue(me,nothing).GetType.GetProperty("ShiftId").GetValue(

I'm stuck on the object to pass into the last GetValue call. I;m not sure
how to get a reference to the object contained in the outer class's property.