Question

I have set of properties as follows:

public string Foo1 {set;get;}
public string Foo2 {set;get;}
public string Foo3 {set;get;}
public string Foo4 {set;get;}
public string Foo5 {set;get;}
public string Foo6 {set;get;}
public string Foo7 {set;get;}
public string Foo8 {set;get;}
public string Foo9 {set;get;}
......
public string Foo50 {set;get;}

then i m iterating through a collection as follows:

foreach(var element in sortedCollection.Keys){
   if(element != null)
   // in this block I would like to assign the element to the properties above
   // ex:
   foo?? = sortedCollection[element];
   // ?? need to be replaced by index.
}

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

I think a better design would be:

public List<string> Foos { get; private set; }

If you can’t change it, you could probably do something like:

var type = typeof(MyCalss);
int index = 1;
foreach (var key in sortedCollection.Keys)
{
   var value = sortedCollection[key];
   var prop = type.GetProperty("Foo" + index);
   if (prop != null) prop.SetValue(this, value, null);

   index++;
}

… of course with some error handling, and where this assumes this is a method within your class. Can you determine an index based on the values in your sortedCollection?