>For lurkers, I thought I'd post my results :
>
>this technique works for public properties and works well.
>
>Here's the VB version of what I did
>
>We are asssuming there are a dozen public properties of type BaseBO
>Based on a string we are going to find out the number of records in that BO
>(the actually string is derived from evaluating the displayvalue of an enum at run-time)
>
>

>Dim childname as string = "GL"
>Dim childbo as Basebo 
>Dim pd As PropertyDescriptor = _
>TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(Me).Find(childname, True)
>
>         If Not IsDBNull(pd) Then
>                  childbo = CType(pd.GetValue(Me), BaseBO)
>                  childcount = childbo.Count
>          End If
>

>
>Thanks Cetin
>
>(the function Michel posted is very useful when the BO is assigned to a private variable instead of a property )

Birsey degil:)

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Cetin