http://davesbox.com/archive/2008/12/06/api-oddities-1.aspxWhy does Type.GetMember return an array of members? It&#39;s description states: Gets the specified members of the current Type. Here&#39;s a hint; if you are going to return multiple things from a method or property, give it a plural name - it just makesenCommunityServer 2008 (Build: 30417.1769)http://davesbox.com/archive/2008/12/06/api-oddities-1.aspx#1182Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:46:34 GMT2122c344-89bc-4cd7-b145-b0515ba3439f:1182dand<p>I agree completely with naming things clearly, i would argue to have the method name to be GetAllMembers(). &nbsp;It might be a small point but &#39;All&#39; stands out and clearly implies more than one. &nbsp;&quot;All&quot; stands out textually better than an &#39;s&#39; at the end of a method name. Additionally i&#39;ve seen a few times intellisense, as helpful as it tries to be, will at times select the wrong/first method from intellisense. &nbsp; So i would be one to argue to have GetMember() and GetAllMembers().</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://davesbox.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1182" width="1" height="1">http://davesbox.com/archive/2008/12/06/api-oddities-1.aspx#1025Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:20:45 GMT2122c344-89bc-4cd7-b145-b0515ba3439f:1025Stevi Deter<p>Now I feel better about taking the time recently to update a method&#39;s name to plural because it returned a List. Made me crazy and I finally just had to fix it. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://davesbox.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1025" width="1" height="1">http://davesbox.com/archive/2008/12/06/api-oddities-1.aspx#1023Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:33:38 GMT2122c344-89bc-4cd7-b145-b0515ba3439f:1023Popanz A<p>Type.GetMember returns a single member. Did you notice the name paramter?</p> <div class="davescomment">What version of Type.GetMember are you looking at? All three overloads (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xdtchs6z.aspx" class="null">1</a>, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/16z89wsw.aspx" class="null">2</a>, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1dk6tw7k.aspx" class="null">3</a>) return multiple members if their names are the same. For example, if I have three overloaded methods all called &#39;Foo&#39;, it will return all three if I pass &#39;Foo&#39; as the name parameter.</div><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://davesbox.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1023" width="1" height="1">