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POC# - get object name?
 

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    <p>Sorry about unspecific title, not entirely sure how to describe it</p> <p>I have a custom list of lists for a menu. CatalogueMenu has an enumerator so I can loop through the colour lists in it</p> <pre><code>public class CatalogueMenu { private List&lt;List&lt;MenuItem&gt;&gt; MenuList = new List&lt;List&lt;MenuItem&gt;&gt;(); public List&lt;MenuItem&gt; Reds { get; private set; } public List&lt;MenuItem&gt; Blues { get; private set; } public List&lt;MenuItem&gt; Greens { get; private set; } public List&lt;MenuItem&gt; Yellows { get; private set; } public CatalogueMenu () { Reds = new List&lt;MenuItem&gt;(); Blues = new List&lt;MenuItem&gt;(); Greens = new List&lt;MenuItem&gt;(); Yellows = new List&lt;MenuItem&gt;(); MenuList.Add(Reds); MenuList.Add(Blues); MenuList.Add(Greens); MenuList.Add(Yellows); } public IEnumerator&lt;List&lt;MenuItem&gt;&gt; GetEnumerator() { return this.MenuList.GetEnumerator(); } } public class MenuItem { public int ID { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>In my MVC3 app I'm looping through the lists, but I also want to display the name of each list e.g</p> <p>Blues - list - of - blues Reds - list - of - reds</p> <p>a) Can I get the list name from the actual list-object itself? or b) Do I have to create a custom class for the colour list so it contains a string for the name, and a list as well</p> <pre><code>&lt;ul&gt; @foreach (var itemList in Model) { &lt;li class="listName"&gt;**@itemList.Name or something like that?**&lt;/li&gt; foreach (var item in itemList) { &lt;li&gt;@Html.ActionLink( item.Name, "Browse", "Catalogue", Request.QueryString.ToRouteValueDictionary().AddOrUpdate(**itemList.Name??**, item.ID), null) &lt;/li&gt; } } &lt;/ul&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COYou certainly can get the name of an object at runtime; that's called [reflection](http://csharp.net-tutorials.com/reflection/introduction/). Still studying what the rest of your problem implies, though.
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    2. CO@Albert Perrien: No, an object doesn't have a name. You can use reflection to get the name of a property that contains a reference to the object, but only by looping through the properties and getting their values to compare them to the reference of the object.
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    3. CO@Albert: Assuming that "name" means "name of the variable that refers to it", I have to doubt both that it's possible and that it's meaningful. There is no such thing as the name of an object - for a given object, there's any number (including zero) of names referring to it. And finding them is extremely costy, by the way. That number is unrelated to the number of actual references to the object, by the way.
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