Getting ALL the properties of an object [duplicate]

i have object like this:

some_object

this object has like 1000 properties.

i would like to loop through every property like this:

foreach (property in some_object)
//output the property

is there an easy way to do this?

You can use reflection.

// Get property array
var properties = GetProperties(some_object);

foreach (var p in properties)
{
    string name = p.Name;
    var value = p.GetValue(some_object, null);
}

private static PropertyInfo[] GetProperties(object obj)
{
    return obj.GetType().GetProperties();
}

However, this still does not solve the problem where you have an object with 1000 properties.

Another approach you can use in this situation is converting an object into a JSON object. The JSON.NET library makes this easy and almost any object can be represented in JSON. You can then loop through the objects properties as Name / Value pairs. This approach would be useful for composite objects which contain other objects as you can loop through them in a tree-like nature.

MyClass some_object = new MyClass() { PropA = "A", PropB = "B", PropC = "C" };
JObject json = JObject.FromObject(some_object);
foreach (JProperty property in json.Properties())
    Console.WriteLine(property.Name + " - " + property.Value);

Console.ReadLine();