Using Reflection to find [XmlAttribute("IWantThisValueRightHere")]

Question

I have a class with a few basic properties...

[XmlAttribute("MyFirstProperty")]
public string FirstProperty { get; set; }

[XmlAttribute("MySecondProperty")]
public string SecondProperty { get; set; }

Using Reflection, I can enumerate through the public properties and get PropertyInfo objects for each of the properties above... the only thing I need now is a way to:

1. Detect whether or not the property has a XmlAttribute (I'm thinking this works via PropertyInfo.IsDefined(typeof(XmlAttribute), true) but would like to make sure)
2. Get the string value of the XmlAttribute

How is this done?

Answer 1

 object[] attribs = myPropertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(XmlAttribute),false);
 bool doesPropertyHaveAttrib =attribs.Length > 0; 
 string name = (XmlAttribute)(attribs[0].AttributeName);

Good point by Joel in the comments. My bad. Fixed.

Answer 2

I currently use this approach:

'Get the properties

       Dim pi() As PropertyInfo = arguments.SourceObject.GetType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance Or BindingFlags.Static Or BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.GetProperty)

'get attributes for the properties

dim pitem As PropertyInfo=pi(0)

           Dim vobj() As Object = pitem.GetCustomAttributes(GetType(ValidationSettingsBaseAttribute), False)


          Dim attr As ValidationSettingsBaseAttribute= TryCast(vobj(0), ValidationSettingsBaseAttribute)