need help listing possible values of a property

[Pharlan]

alright, i have been banging my head against this for days and i think i must be missing something.

the problem:

I want to be able to list the possible values of a property of a control in a listbox.

for example, lets say I throw it a textbox and the property I want to investigate is the "TextMode" property.
I want the list box to list the possible values of the textbox TextMode possibilites ("SingleLine, MultiLine, Password).

I am using a barcode control and I really don't want to have to write case statements for all 200+ versions of symbology.

here is how far i am now:

Type type = TextBox1.GetType();
        

        System.Reflection.PropertyInfo[] properties = type.GetProperties();

        foreach (System.Reflection.PropertyInfo property in properties)
        {
                            
            propertyList.Items.Add(new ListItem(property.Name));
          

        }

this will list all the available properties
and this:

string propertyName = "TextMode";
        System.Reflection.BindingFlags flags = System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty;
        System.Reflection.Binder binder = null;
        object[] args = null;

        object result = type.InvokeMember(propertyName, flags, binder, TextBox1, args);

        valueText.Text = result.ToString();

will only give me the current value of that property, not the possible values.


so.. any help?

[jmcilhinney]

You're talking about a property whose type is an enumeration, so you need to get that enumeration and then get its values:

Type objectType = this.textBox1.GetType();
Type propertyType;
 
foreach (PropertyInfo prop in objectType.GetProperties())
{
    propertyType = prop.PropertyType;
 
    if (propertyType.IsEnum)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(string.Format("Property: {0}\n\n",
                                      prop.Name) +
                        string.Join(Environment.NewLine,
                                    Enum.GetNames(propertyType)));
    }
}