Get private Properties/Method of base-class with reflection

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With Type.GetProperties() you can retrieve all properties of your current class and the public properties of the base-class. Is it somehow possible to get the private properties of the base-class too?

class Base
{
    private string Foo { get; set; }
}

class Sub : Base
{
    private string Bar { get; set; }
}

Sub s = new Sub();
PropertyInfo[] pinfos = s.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static);
foreach (PropertyInfo p in pinfos)
{
    Console.WriteLine(p.Name);
}
Console.ReadKey();

This will only print "Bar" because "Foo" is in the base-class and private.

reflection .net c#
2 Answers

To get all properties (public/private/protected/internal/static/instance) of a given Type someType, you must access the base class by using someType.BaseType.

Example:

PropertyInfo[] props = someType.BaseType.GetProperties(
        BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public
        | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static)
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