Find out if a property is declared virtual
Technically, properties are not virtual -- their accessors are. Try this:
typeof(Cat).GetProperty("Age").GetAccessors()[0].IsVirtual
If you wanted, you could use an extension method like the following to determine if a property is virtual:
public static bool? IsVirtual(this PropertyInfo self)
{
if (self == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("self");
bool? found = null;
foreach (MethodInfo method in self.GetAccessors()) {
if (found.HasValue) {
if (found.Value != method.IsVirtual)
return null;
} else {
found = method.IsVirtual;
}
}
return found;
}
If it returns null
, either the property has no accessors (which should never happen) or all of the property accessors do not have the same virtual status -- at least one is and one is not virtual.
You could use the IsVirtual property:
var isVirtual = typeof(Cat).GetProperty("Age").GetGetMethod().IsVirtual;
IsVirtual alone didn't work for me. It was telling me that all my non-virtual non-nullable properties were virtual. I had to use a combination of IsFinal and IsVirtual
Here's what I ended up with:
PropertyInfo[] nonVirtualProperties = myType.GetProperties().Where(x => x.GetAccessors()[0].IsFinal || !x.GetAccessors()[0].IsVirtual).ToArray();
PropertyInfo[] virtualProperties = myType.GetProperties().Where(x => !x.GetAccessors()[0].IsFinal && x.GetAccessors()[0].IsVirtual).ToArray();