Question

I’m building/updating an EntityFramework EntityObject on runtime. I want to set the properties of the entity class, property names and values are coming from another source.

So I’m doing this;

    public static EntityCollection<T> UpdateLocaleEntity<T>(EntityCollection<T> entityCollectionToUpdate, params ILocaleControl[] values) where T : EntityObject
    {
        foreach (var x in entityCollectionToUpdate)
        {
            Type t = typeof(T);
            dynamic localeEntity = x;

            string cultureCode = localeEntity.CultureCode;

            for (int j = 0; j < values.Length; j++)
            {
                var value = values[j].GetLocaleValue(cultureCode);
                t.GetProperty(values[j].EntityPropertyName).SetValue(localeEntity, value, null);
            }
        }

        return entityCollectionToUpdate;
    }

So, how can I get rid of “t.GetProperty(values[j].EntityPropertyName).SetValue(localeEntity, value, null);” part, is there a dynamic way of doing this?

Something like;

dynamicCastedLocaleEntity.GetProperty(values[j].EntityPropertyName) = value;

Thanks.

Answer 1

I’m afraid not. Any use of a dynamic object is baked-in at compile time. Any call which could vary at run-time has to be done using reflection.