Field Name

[Ken Kast]

I want to be able to determine to which field in a class a particular object
refers. In other words, I have (in C#)
class MyClass
{
private object myField;
}

x = new MyClass();
object y = new object();
x.myField = y;

I want to pass y into a method, which knows about MyClass, and have it
determine that y defines myField. I know that I can determine the names and
types of fields via reflection. Is there a way to match up field instances?

Ken

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Ken Kast <ne**@NOSPAMkenkast.comwrote:

I want to be able to determine to which field in a class a particular object
refers. In other words, I have (in C#)
class MyClass
{
private object myField;
}

x = new MyClass();
object y = new object();
x.myField = y;

I want to pass y into a method, which knows about MyClass, and have it
determine that y defines myField. I know that I can determine the names and
types of fields via reflection. Is there a way to match up field instances?

Well, you could fetch each value and check whether it's the same
reference as the one you passed in - but there may be ambiguity, in
that there may be more than one field with the same value.

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