Question

I have the following code:

List<MultiServiceRequestMember> _memberList = new List<MultiServiceRequestMember>();
var type = Type.GetType(svc.NotificationClassName); <- this is a string of the class name.
MultiServiceRequestMember newMember = (MultiServiceRequestMember)Activator.CreateInstance(type);

_memberList.add(newMember);

The MultServiceRequestMember is a base type and I want to assign values to properties specific to type. My question is: How do I cast newMember to type and access its properties?

Answer 1

How do I cast newMember to type and access it’s properties?

You can’t cast it, because you don’t know the specific type at compile-time. If you did, you wouldn’t need reflection in the first place!

You’ll have to set the properties by reflection too:

// TODO: Checking that you managed to get the property, that's it's writable etc.
var property = type.GetProperty("PropertyName");
property.SetValue(newMember, "new value", null);