Question

I have an object (.NET) of type “object“. I don’t know the “real type (class)” behind it during runtime , but I know, that the object has a property “string name“. How can I retrive the value of “name”? Is this possible?

something like this:

object item = AnyFunction(....);
string value = item.name;

Answer 1

Use reflection

System.Reflection.PropertyInfo pi = item.GetType().GetProperty("name");
String name = (String)(pi.GetValue(item, null));