Comparing Object properties using reflection
- by Kumar
I have two classes Address and Employee as follows:
public class Address
{
public string AddressLine1 { get; set; }
public string AddressLine2 { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
public string State { get; set; }
public string Zip { get; set; }
}
public class Employee
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string MiddleName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public Address EmployeeAddress { get; set; }
}
I have two employee instances as follows:
var emp1Address = new Address();
emp1Address.AddressLine1 = "Microsoft Corporation";
emp1Address.AddressLine2 = "One Microsoft Way";
emp1Address.City = "Redmond";
emp1Address.State = "WA";
emp1Address.Zip = "98052-6399";
var emp1 = new Employee();
emp1.FirstName = "Bill";
emp1.LastName = "Gates";
emp1.EmployeeAddress = emp1Address;
var emp2Address = new Address();
emp2Address.AddressLine1 = "Gates Foundation";
emp2Address.AddressLine2 = "One Microsoft Way";
emp2Address.City = "Redmond";
emp2Address.State = "WA";
emp2Address.Zip = "98052-6399";
var emp2 = new Employee();
emp2.FirstName = "Melinda";
emp2.LastName = "Gates";
emp2.EmployeeAddress = emp2Address;
Now how can I write a method which compares these two employees and returns the list of properties which have different values. So in this example I would like the result to be FirstName and Address.AddressLine1 .
