How to Get a List of Properties or Attributes of a Class or Types or Object

Recently I happened to read through all the class properties programmatically I tried multiple ways of identifying to achieve the same including reflection.

So today in this article I’m gonna talk about how to read class properties or attributes programmatically using a simple approach.

I have a simple class as shown below,

 public class Employee
    {
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
        public string Address { get; set; }
        public string ZipCode { get; set; }
        public string State { get; set; }
        public string Country { get; set; }
        public string EmployeeId { get; set; }
    }

Let’s use the Newtonsoft Nuget package to serialize and deserialize the object for its properties.

Please install it from Nuget Package Manager,

PM> Install-Package Newtonsoft.Json -Version 12.0.3

The below 2-liner did the trick for me!

JObject empJObject = (JObject)JToken.FromObject(empObject);
List<string> dictEmpObject = empJObject.Properties().Select(x => x.Name).ToList();

Below is the complete code,

Please add below using statements,

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Linq;

Let’s print the result,

That’s All, Happy Coding!

References:

• Add Newtonsoft Json support in ASP.NET Core

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