Reflection on COM object

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norbert_P=FCrringer?=]

Hello,

I would like to read out each property of a COM object via reflection:

comObject.GetTy pe().GetPropert ies()

Instead of getting a list of properties, GetProperties returns an
array of 0 PropertyInfo objects. Is reflection only possible for
normal C# objects?

Thank you,
Norbert

[Howard Swope]

Re: Reflection on COM object

I'm not a pro on COM interop, but a COM object is not a .Net object. Unless
a COM object supports an IDispatch interface there won't be run time type
information. It doesn't have any notion of reflection. Calling GetType() on
a COM object will probalby just return some kind of managed wrapper
information. I don't know if it is smart enough to redirect calls to
IDispatch, but there isn't really a one to one relationship between
IDispatch and System::Type either.

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"Norbert Pürringer" <thalion77@graf fiti.netwrote in message
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Hello,
>
I would like to read out each property of a COM object via reflection:
>
comObject.GetTy pe().GetPropert ies()
>
Instead of getting a list of properties, GetProperties returns an
array of 0 PropertyInfo objects. Is reflection only possible for
normal C# objects?
>
Thank you,
Norbert