Type.GetDefaultMembers Method ()
Searches for the members defined for the current Type whose DefaultMemberAttribute is set.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Return Value
Type: System.Reflection.MemberInfo()An array of MemberInfo objects representing all default members of the current Type.
-or-
An empty array of type MemberInfo, if the current Type does not have default members.
Implements
_Type.GetDefaultMembers()The GetDefaultMembers method does not return members in a particular order, such as alphabetical or declaration order. Your code must not depend on the order in which members are returned, because that order varies.
This method can be overridden by a derived class.
Members include properties, methods, fields, events, and so on.
The following table shows what members of a base class are returned by the Get methods when reflecting on a type.
Member Type | Static | Non-Static |
|---|---|---|
Constructor | No | No |
Field | No | Yes. A field is always hide-by-name-and-signature. |
Event | Not applicable | The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below. |
Method | No | Yes. A method (both virtual and non-virtual) can be hide-by-name or hide-by-name-and-signature. |
Nested Type | No | No |
Property | Not applicable | The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below. |
Hide-by-name-and-signature considers all of the parts of the signature, including custom modifiers, return types, parameter types, sentinels, and unmanaged calling conventions. This is a binary comparison.
For reflection, properties and events are hide-by-name-and-signature. If you have a property with both a get and a set accessor in the base class, but the derived class has only a get accessor, the derived class property hides the base class property, and you will not be able to access the setter on the base class.
Custom attributes are not part of the common type system.
If the current Type represents a constructed generic type, this method returns the MemberInfo objects with the type parameters replaced by the appropriate type arguments. For example, if class C<T> has a property P that returns T, calling GetDefaultMembers on C<int> returns int P in C# (Property P As Integer in Visual Basic).
If the current Type represents a type parameter in the definition of a generic type or generic method, this method searches the members of the class constraint, or the members of Object if there is no class constraint.
The following example obtains the default member information of MyClass and displays the default members.
Imports System Imports System.Reflection Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic <DefaultMemberAttribute("Age")> Public Class [MyClass] Public Sub Name(ByVal s As String) End Sub 'Name Public ReadOnly Property Age() As Integer Get Return 20 End Get End Property Public Shared Sub Main() Try Dim myType As Type = GetType([MyClass]) Dim memberInfoArray As MemberInfo() = myType.GetDefaultMembers() If memberInfoArray.Length > 0 Then Dim memberInfoObj As MemberInfo For Each memberInfoObj In memberInfoArray Console.WriteLine("The default member name is: " + memberInfoObj.ToString()) Next memberInfoObj Else Console.WriteLine("No default members are available.") End If Catch e As InvalidOperationException Console.WriteLine("InvalidOperationException: " + e.Message) Catch e As IOException Console.WriteLine("IOException: " + e.Message) Catch e As Exception Console.WriteLine("Exception: " + e.Message) End Try End Sub 'Main End Class '[MyClass]
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0