Question

Say I want to loop through a datareader and create a load of objects of a certain type but using a value from the datareader as the object name e.g.

String 'string_' + <value from datareader> = new String(); 

So if I had values temp1,temp2 & temp3 coming out of the datareader I would have 3 new objects of type string e.g.

string_temp1 string_temp2 string_temp3 

How can I create the objects with the name from the datareader?, or is there any suggestions on a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Rather than using reflection, I think it’d be easier to just use a Dictionary that maps the names you want the objects to have to their values:

var map = new Dictionary<String, String>(); map[...] = new String(); //   ^ //   | //   +---- substitute with whatever naming scheme you deem suitable