C# Reflecion - Is it possible?

[David Krmpotic]

Hello,

I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in memory.

So it is somehow reverse from GetType().

I want to do this:

foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
{
...
}
Any suggestions please? Thank you!

David

[Peter Rilling]

No. I don't think so.
"David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
news:Rm********************@news.siol.net...

Hello,

I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in memory.

So it is somehow reverse from GetType().

I want to do this:

foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
{
...
}
Any suggestions please? Thank you!

David

[Mike]

Smalltalk supports "obj allInstances" and is one of the few that do.
It's normally considered but practice to to rely on the environment for
this, as it may be hard return "all" objects in a multthread, GC'd
environment, and having the system always ready return all instances may
incur constant overhead that you wouldn't want to impose on all programs.
You'll probably need to keep your own collection of objects of the types you
want to track and you may want to use the WeakReference class so that your
collection doesn't keep objects alive that are meant to be reclaimed,
depending on how you're tracking the objects.

m
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

No. I don't think so.
"David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
news:Rm********************@news.siol.net...

Hello,

I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in memory.

So it is somehow reverse from GetType().

I want to do this:

foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
{
...
}
Any suggestions please? Thank you!

David

[David Krmpotic]

Thank you Mike,

Actually I wanted to use this feature just out of convenience. Now I'll
register all the objects manually. I was making a simple Testing framework.
All the classes that derive from the TestingBase now have to register
themselves with TestingManager which runs the tests on all of them on
request. That works fine now. Thank you!
David Krmpotic
http://www.david13.com

"Mike" <vi********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ei*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Smalltalk supports "obj allInstances" and is one of the few that do.
It's normally considered but practice to to rely on the environment for
this, as it may be hard return "all" objects in a multthread, GC'd
environment, and having the system always ready return all instances may
incur constant overhead that you wouldn't want to impose on all programs.
You'll probably need to keep your own collection of objects of the types you want to track and you may want to use the WeakReference class so that your
collection doesn't keep objects alive that are meant to be reclaimed,
depending on how you're tracking the objects.

m
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

No. I don't think so.
"David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
news:Rm********************@news.siol.net...

Hello,

I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in memory.
So it is somehow reverse from GetType().

I want to do this:

foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
{
...
}
Any suggestions please? Thank you!

David

[Eric Newton]

Ever heard of NUnit? pretty popular testing framework that sound like it
works similar

http://nunit.sourceforge.net/
--
Eric Newton
eric.at.ensoft-software.com
www.ensoft-software.com
C#/ASP.net Solutions developer

"David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
news:rI********************@news.siol.net...

Thank you Mike,

Actually I wanted to use this feature just out of convenience. Now I'll
register all the objects manually. I was making a simple Testing
framework.
All the classes that derive from the TestingBase now have to register
themselves with TestingManager which runs the tests on all of them on
request. That works fine now. Thank you!
David Krmpotic
http://www.david13.com

"Mike" <vi********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ei*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Smalltalk supports "obj allInstances" and is one of the few that do.
It's normally considered but practice to to rely on the environment for
this, as it may be hard return "all" objects in a multthread, GC'd
environment, and having the system always ready return all instances may
incur constant overhead that you wouldn't want to impose on all programs.
You'll probably need to keep your own collection of objects of the types

you

want to track and you may want to use the WeakReference class so that
your
collection doesn't keep objects alive that are meant to be reclaimed,
depending on how you're tracking the objects.

m
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> No. I don't think so.
>
>
> "David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
> news:Rm********************@news.siol.net...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in memory. >>
>> So it is somehow reverse from GetType().
>>
>> I want to do this:
>>
>> foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
>> {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions please? Thank you!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>
>

[David Krmpotic]

Thank you - yes I've heard of it, but I didn't use it yet.
I wanted to make a simple one of my own. It took me like a few hours (hehe
it shouldn't even take that).

But now I am going to check NUnit out to get new ideas :)
"Eric Newton" <er**@ensoft-software.com> wrote in message
news:eY**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Ever heard of NUnit? pretty popular testing framework that sound like it
works similar

http://nunit.sourceforge.net/
--
Eric Newton
eric.at.ensoft-software.com
www.ensoft-software.com
C#/ASP.net Solutions developer

"David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
news:rI********************@news.siol.net...

Thank you Mike,

Actually I wanted to use this feature just out of convenience. Now I'll
register all the objects manually. I was making a simple Testing
framework.
All the classes that derive from the TestingBase now have to register
themselves with TestingManager which runs the tests on all of them on
request. That works fine now. Thank you!
David Krmpotic
http://www.david13.com

"Mike" <vi********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ei*************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Smalltalk supports "obj allInstances" and is one of the few that do.
It's normally considered but practice to to rely on the environment for
this, as it may be hard return "all" objects in a multthread, GC'd
environment, and having the system always ready return all instances may incur constant overhead that you wouldn't want to impose on all programs. You'll probably need to keep your own collection of objects of the

types you

want to track and you may want to use the WeakReference class so that
your
collection doesn't keep objects alive that are meant to be reclaimed,
depending on how you're tracking the objects.

m
"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.rilling.net> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> No. I don't think so.
>
>
> "David Krmpotic" <da************@no-no.si> wrote in message
> news:Rm********************@news.siol.net...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to find all the objects of some type that are currently in

memory.

>>
>> So it is somehow reverse from GetType().
>>
>> I want to do this:
>>
>> foreach(MyObject o in AllTheObjectsOfGivenType(typeof(MyObject))
>> {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions please? Thank you!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>
>