A property is considered public to reflection if it has at least one accessor that is public. Otherwise the property is considered private, and you must use System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static (in Visual Basic, combine the values using Or) to get it.

Although the default binder does not process System.Reflection.ParameterModifier (the modifiers parameter), you can use the abstract System.Reflection.Binder class to write a custom binder that does process modifiers. ParameterModifier is only used when calling through COM interop, and only parameters that are passed by reference are handled.

The following table shows what members of a base class are returned by the Get methods when reflecting on a type.

Constructor	No	No
Field	No	Yes. A field is always hide-by-name-and-signature.
Event	Not applicable	The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below.
Method	No	Yes. A method (both virtual and non-virtual) can be hide-by-name or hide-by-name-and-signature.
Nested Type	No	No
Property	Not applicable	The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below.

[The 'ordered' type of list has not been implemented in the ECMA stylesheet.]

The following System.Reflection.BindingFlags filter flags can be used to define which properties to include in the search:

• You must specify either BindingFlags.Instance or BindingFlags.Static in order to get a return.

• Specify BindingFlags.Public to include public properties in the search.

• Specify BindingFlags.NonPublic to include non-public properties (that is, private, internal, and protected properties) in the search.

• Specify BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy to include public and protected static members up the hierarchy; private static members in inherited classes are not included.

The following System.Reflection.BindingFlags modifier flags can be used to change how the search works:

• BindingFlags.IgnoreCase to ignore the case of name.

• BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly to search only the properties declared on the Type, not properties that were simply inherited.

See System.Reflection.BindingFlags for more information.

If the current Type represents a constructed generic type, this method returns the System.Reflection.PropertyInfo with the type parameters replaced by the appropriate type arguments.

If the current Type represents a type parameter in the definition of a generic type or generic method, this method searches the properties of the class constraint.

Indexers and Default Properties

vbprvblong, csprcslong, and vcprvclong have simplified syntax for accessing indexed properties and allow one indexed property to be a default for its type. For example, if the variable myList refers to an ArrayList, the syntax myList[3] (myList(3) in Visual Basic) retrieves the element with the index of 3. You can overload the property.

In C#, this feature is called an indexer and cannot be refered to by name. By default, a C# indexer appears in metadata as an indexed property named "Item". However, a class library developer can use the System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IndexerNameAttribute attribute to change the name of the indexer in the metadata. For example, the string class has an indexer named string.Chars(int). Indexed properties created using languages other than C# can have names other than Item, as well. 

To determine whether a type has a default property, use the System.Reflection.MemberInfo.GetCustomAttributes(Type, bool) method to test for the System.Reflection.DefaultMemberAttribute attribute. If the type has System.Reflection.DefaultMemberAttribute, the System.Reflection.DefaultMemberAttribute.MemberName property returns the name of the default property.

Namespace: System
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0, 4.0.0.0