Determining an auto property

[deedee]

Hi,

Is there a way to find from a property definition, if the property is Auto property? On looking at the dll, I can see the private string <OldValue>k__BackingField; generated for an auto property named 'OldValue' returning a string - under the Derived Types, but how do I fetch the corresponding information directly from Mono?

Thanks in advance :)

[Jb Evain]

If both's getter and setter of the PropertDefinition have a
CompilerGeneratedAttribute on them, then it's probably a auto
property.

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> mono-cecil

[Simon]

what are you trying to achieve?

[deedee]

Simon: I am doing some code analysis, and I want to exclude the auto - properties from that.

Jb Evain: I still have to try that out, other things have kept me busy -- but if that works, will update it here.

Thanks!

[Simon]

deedee. 

As JB said there is no way to work this out via metadata. you have to make assumptions.

The easiest would be to take "<OldValue>k__BackingField" and extract the "OldValue" part and find a property with that name