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copied!<p>I'm Unit Testing a class which has 2 private member variables inside of it. I have created a class which inherits from the class I am testing.</p> <p>At first I just made the variables I wanted to access <code>protected</code> but I thought it would be cool if I could keep them private and use reflection to access them. I Googled and found various articles (& questions asked on here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4097682/c-sharp-use-reflection-to-get-a-private-member-variable-from-a-derived-class)) and the accepted answers did not work.</p> <p>The linked SO question said:</p> <pre><code>// _commandCollection is an instance, private member BindingFlags flags = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic; // Retrieve a FieldInfo instance corresponding to the field FieldInfo field = GetType().GetField("_commandCollection", flags); // Retrieve the value of the field, and cast as necessary IDbCommand[] cc =(IDbCommand[])field.GetValue(this); </code></pre> <p>However, there is no <code>GetField()</code> method. I tried a method that looked similar, <code>GetRuntimeField()</code> but that did not work.</p> <p>My code (in the inheriting class) is:</p> <pre><code>public List<BaseData> RealAllData { get { // Use reflection to access the private variable FieldInfo field = GetType().GetRuntimeField("mAllData"); return (List<BaseData>)field.GetValue(this); } } </code></pre> <p>If anyone knows why this does not work then I would be grateful. Thanks.</p>

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