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How to iterate over object and get property name and value

I have an object called GeoCode with a list of address objects.
A stripped down version of the classes:

public class GeoCode
{
        public List<GoogleAddress> AddressList { get; set; }
        //... other stuff
}

public class GoogleAddress : BaseAddress
{
       //..some stuff
}

public class BaseAddress
{
        public int LocationId { get; set; }
        public string RequestUrl { get; set; }
        public string OriginalAddress { get; set; }
        public string OfficialStreet { get; set; }
        public string OfficialCity { get; set; }
        public string OfficialState { get; set; }
        public string OfficialZip { get; set; }
        public string OfficialCountry { get; set; }
        public SqlGeography GeoLocation { get; set; }
        public DateTime GeoCodeDateTime { get; set; }
        public string GeoCodeService { get; set; }
}

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I want to iterate over the properties of the address objects in GeoCode. I can do that by manually specifying the properties

foreach (var address in geoCode.AddressList)
            {
                HtmlTableRow row = new HtmlTableRow();
                HtmlTableCell c0 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.OriginalAddress};
                row.Cells.Add(c0);
                HtmlTableCell c1 = new HtmlTableCell{ InnerText = address.OfficialStreet};
                row.Cells.Add(c1);
                HtmlTableCell c2 = new HtmlTableCell{ InnerText = address.OfficialCity};
                row.Cells.Add(c2);
                HtmlTableCell c3 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.OfficialState};
                row.Cells.Add(c3);
                HtmlTableCell c4 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.OfficialZip};
                row.Cells.Add(c4);
                HtmlTableCell c5 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.OfficialCountry};
                row.Cells.Add(c5);
                HtmlTableCell c6 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.GeoLocation.ToString()};
                row.Cells.Add(c6);
                HtmlTableCell c7 = new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = address.AddressQuality };
                row.Cells.Add(c7);
                HtmlTableCell c8 = new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = address.GeoCodeService };
                row.Cells.Add(c8);
                HtmlTableCell c9 = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = address.GeoCodeDateTime.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)};
                row.Cells.Add(c9);
                table.Rows.Add(row);
            }

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But what I'd like to do is to iterate over geoCode.AddressList and get each property name, so I can consolidate that iteration above to something like:

foreach(var address in geoCode.AddressList)
{
	HtmlTableRow row = new HtmlTableRow();
	foreach(var property in address.properties)  //How is this done?
	{
		 HtmlTableCell c = new HtmlTableCell{ InnerText = property.value }
		 row.Cells.Add(c);
	}
}

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How do I iterate over the properties of the address object and get the name and value? I will need the property name for the table header row.

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YZlat

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zephyr_hex (Megan)

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Yes, these are classes I've created. Once I implement IEnumerable, how do I access the properties?

Here's my updated class:

public class GeoCode : IEnumerable
{
        public List<GoogleAddress> AddressList { get; set; }
        // some stuff...
        public IEnumerator<GoogleAddress> GetEnumerator()
        {
            return AddressList.GetEnumerator();
        }

        IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
        {
            return GetEnumerator();
        }
}

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zephyr_hex (Megan)

ASKER

@käµfm³d 👽

With a slight modification to GetValue(), I was able to get the results I was looking for.

HtmlTable table = new HtmlTable();
            HtmlTableRow hr = new HtmlTableRow();
            bool isFirstPass = true;
            foreach (var address in geoCode.AddressList)
            {
                HtmlTableRow row = new HtmlTableRow();
                foreach (var property in address.GetType().GetProperties())
                {
                    if (isFirstPass)
                    {
                        HtmlTableCell c = new HtmlTableCell{InnerText = property.Name };
                        hr.Cells.Add(c);
                    }
                    HtmlTableCell cv = new HtmlTableCell { InnerText = property.GetValue(address, null).ToString() };
                    row.Cells.Add(cv);
                }
                if (isFirstPass)
                {
                    hr.Attributes.Add("class", "text-bold");
                    table.Rows.Add(hr);
                }
                table.Rows.Add(row);
                isFirstPass = false;
            }

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