Recursively Get Properties & Child Properties Of A Class

You have two problems with your code:

  1. because of condition if (property.PropertyType.Assembly == objType.Assembly) you will omit System.Collections like List<>
  2. you do not treat differently propValue that are collections. Hence it will print List properties, not its elements properties.

You can change that for example into:

public void PrintProperties(object obj, int indent)
{    
    if (obj == null) return;
    string indentString = new string(' ', indent);
    Type objType = obj.GetType();
    PropertyInfo[] properties = objType.GetProperties();
    foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
    {
        object propValue = property.GetValue(obj, null);
        var elems = propValue as IList;
        if (elems != null)
        {
            foreach (var item in elems)
            {
                PrintProperties(item, indent + 3);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // This will not cut-off System.Collections because of the first check
            if (property.PropertyType.Assembly == objType.Assembly)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}:", indentString, property.Name);

                PrintProperties(propValue, indent + 2);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0}{1}: {2}", indentString, property.Name, propValue);
            }
        }
    }
}

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