Type dynamic along with Variables

Question

I wanted to achieve following requirement not by using reflection 

class Customer
{

  public string Name {get;set;}

  public void Show()
  {
  }
}

Main Program
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string propName = "Name"
string functionName  ="Show"

dynamic person = new Customer();
person.propName = "Some Value"
person.functionName()

How do i achieve it ?

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K K Sanghi

Answer 1

You must use reflection to be able to get or set the value of a property by specifying its name dynamically. Declaring a type as dynamic doesn't change this. In fact, a dynamc type is actually a static type but it bypasses static type checking at compile time. At runtime, it will behave just like a Customer variable in your example and you will get a runtime exception as you are basically trying to assing a value to a non-exiting property called "propName" of the Customer class.

Reflection is the only way to go here unless you set the property using usual property syntax, i.e.:

person.Name = "Some Value";

Another option for you may be to use an IDictionary to store the values in the class instead of using properties.

Answer 2

Let me be specific

I want to use variable names as

person.VariableName = "Some Value"

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K K Sanghi

Answer 3

Let me be specific

I want to use variable names as

person.VariableName = "Some Value"

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K K Sanghi

As I have already mentioned, you cannot to this in C#.

You will have to use reflection.