Question

I have a load of text boxes on an aspx page whose IDs are prefixed with ‘txt’ the rest of the ID has a corresponding property of the same name in a certain object. I want to be able to enumerate through these string properties and update them where a text box of the same name (with the prefix removed) is found. Any Ideas? I know by using a Dictionary I can get around the problem but it’s not ideal.

Answer 1

You can do that using reflection:

MyObject data = new MyObject();
foreach (var pi in typeof(MyObject).GetProperties().Where(i =>
                                      i.PropertyType.Equals(typeof(string)))
{
   var control = FindControl("txt" + pi.Name) as ITextControl;
   if (control != null)
       pi.SetValue(data, control.Text, null);
}