Question

Scope might not be the right word. With the following code I can’t get access to the collections element’s object’s properties. Is there a better return data type or a way to access those properties?

protected object Modules()
{
    DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(Server.MapPath("~/"));
    var folders = from x in di.GetDirectories()
                    where
                    !(new string[] {
                        "app_data","bin","obj","scripts","styles","properties"
                        }).Contains<string>(x.Name.ToLower())
                    select new
                    {
                        Name = x.Name,
                        Path = x.FullName
                    };
    return folders
}

Answer 1

There are two feasible solutions:

1. Create a real class for it. That’s the prefered solution.
2. Make your method return dynamic instead of object. The problem with this is that you lose compile time checking of the code that uses the result of this method.