Question

I may be missing basic knowledge here, but i ll go for it and ask it.

Lets say we have an array of strings:

ItemCode
ItemDescription

and we have a class:

public class InventoryItem
    {
        public string ItemCode { get; set; }
        public string ItemDescription { get; set; }
    }

I want to be able to reference the properties of an InventoryItem dynamically based on the values of the array.

I need to loop through the array and get the value of the property of the class by the current string member of the array.

How can i do it?

Answer 1

You use reflection:

foreach (var name in propertyNames)
{
    // Or instance.GetType()
    var property = typeof(InventoryItem).GetProperty(name);
    Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", name, property.GetValue(instance, null));
}

See:

• Type.GetProperty
• Type.GetProperties (to find them all)
• PropertyInfo.GetValue