Question

Is it possible to create a “catchall” getter property in C#?

class xyzFactory {

   public static object this.*(string name){
       get { return new name();}
  }
}

In PHP you would write something like

//static getters are new to 5.3, so I didn't put it here.

class xyzFactory{
    public _get($name){ return $name();}
}

Answer 1

You can achieve this with a hack like

xyzFactory.Instance.Name

where static Instance property is of type dynamic

And make you xyzFactory derived from DynamicObject class.

public xyzFactory : DynamicObject
{
    private static xyzFactory _instance = new xyzFactory();

    private xyzFactory() { }

    public static dynamic Instance
    {
        get{ return _instance; }
    }

    public override bool TryGetMember(GetMemberBinder binder, out object result) {
        // ...
    }
}