haslo.ch - Guido's Blog » asp.net http://www.haslo.ch/blog We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 SetProperty and GetProperty with C# Reflection http://www.haslo.ch/blog/setproperty-and-getproperty-with-c-reflection/ http://www.haslo.ch/blog/setproperty-and-getproperty-with-c-reflection/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:32:29 +0000 haslo http://www.haslo.ch/blog/?p=2863 I’ll make a post soon, comparing Ruby on Rails to C# with ASP.NET MVC, but this here is atomic and might be of help for one or two readers.

If you want to set and get properties in C# in a type-agnostic way, these are the functions you want to put into a library class somewhere (or, as I did, into the class that uses them):

private object getProperty(object containingObject, string propertyName)
{
    return containingObject.GetType().InvokeMember(propertyName, BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, containingObject, null);
}
 
private void setProperty(object containingObject, string propertyName, object newValue)
{
    containingObject.GetType().InvokeMember(propertyName, BindingFlags.SetProperty, null, containingObject, new object[] { newValue });
}

That’s all I will say on this subject.

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