Reflecing on Friend Properties...

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MstrControl

Greetings All...

I'm creating a BaseClass that will connect to a database and retrieve
the all the properties values from it.

So far so good. All the inherited classes retrieve it values from the
database... IF the properties are PUBLIC.

I'm using Reflection GetProperties and GetMemebers to retrieve the list
of properties of each class.

But in some classes I need that the BaseClass being able to see the
Friend properties.

Just to be on the same page... All classes are in a single Assembly,
so, it SHOULD work.

Does anyone know how to retrieve a list of Frined properties?

I know it's possible because the Class Viewer shows everything... I
just don't know how yet.

Regards,

Paulo
 
MstrControl said:
I'm creating a BaseClass that will connect to a database and retrieve
the all the properties values from it.

So far so good. All the inherited classes retrieve it values from the
database... IF the properties are PUBLIC.

I'm using Reflection GetProperties and GetMemebers to retrieve the list
of properties of each class.

But in some classes I need that the BaseClass being able to see the
Friend properties.

Just to be on the same page... All classes are in a single Assembly,
so, it SHOULD work.

Does anyone know how to retrieve a list of Frined properties?

I know it's possible because the Class Viewer shows everything... I
just don't know how yet.
Click to expand...

Call the overload of GetProperties which takes a BindingFlags
parameter, and include BindingFlags.NonPublic.
 
Jon,

Jon Skeet said:
[Friend properties]
Click to expand...

Call the overload of GetProperties which takes a BindingFlags
parameter, and include BindingFlags.NonPublic.
Click to expand...

Mhm... I only made a quick check with 'GetProperty' +
'BindingFlags.NonPublic', but this didn't return the property for me...
 
Jon,

Jon Skeet said:
Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?
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My bad -- it seems that there was something wrong in my code. The code
below demonstrates how to determine the non-public properties including the
friend ones:

\\\
Dim f As New Foo
Dim Properties() As PropertyInfo = _
f.GetType().GetProperties( _
BindingFlags.Instance Or _
BindingFlags.NonPublic _
)
For Each pi As PropertyInfo in Properties
MsgBox(p.Name)
Next pi
..
..
..
Public Class Foo
Private m_Bar As String

Friend Property Bar() As String
Get
Return m_Bar
End Get
Set(ByVal Value As String)
m_Bar = Value
End Set
End Property
End Class
///

- or -

\\\
Dim f As New Foo
MsgBox( _
f.GetType().GetProperty( _
"Bar", _
BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.NonPublic _
).Name _
)
///
 
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