Detect DomainModel Entities Type at runtime

The following code snippet shows how you can

(a) discover the types that inherit from Entity in a specific assembly or set of assemblies (I'm only searching one assembly, DomainModel, in this snippet); and
(b) discover the EntityProperties on each type.

You can try this out in the Program.cs of a Console project in any DevForce application.


    private void DoIt() {
      Type[] typesInModel = IdeaBlade.Util.v4.ReflectionFns.GetTypesImplementing(
        typeof(Entity), new string[] { "DomainModel" });
      foreach (Type aType in typesInModel) {
        Console.WriteLine(aType.Name);
        IdeaBlade.EntityModel.v4.EntityMetadata anEntityMetadata =
          IdeaBlade.EntityModel.v4.EntityMetadataStore.Instance.GetEntityMetadata(aType);
        foreach (EntityProperty anEntityProperty in anEntityMetadata.EntityProperties) {
          Console.WriteLine("    {0} [{1}]",
            anEntityProperty.Name,
            anEntityProperty.DataType.ToString());
        }

      }
      PromptToContinue();
    }

    void PromptToContinue() {
      Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to continue...");
      Console.WriteLine();
      Console.ReadLine();
    }