Referencing Property as variable?

[Brett Romero]

If I have a collection such as:
Person.addressc ollection[0].Address1

and have a variable
myAddressField = "Address1"

how can I do something such as
Person.addressc ollection[0].myAddressField

to reach the field "Address1"?

Thanks,
Brett

[Peter Rilling]

Re: Referencing Property as variable?

You cannot the way you have it, but you can use reflection to dynamically
investigate and invoke objects. Take a look at the Type.GetPropert y( ... ).
You will most likly have to wrap whatever you are doing in some method as
there is not built-in syntax for this.


"Brett Romero" <account@cygen. com> wrote in message
news:1137789783 .187468.322720@ g14g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> If I have a collection such as:
> Person.addressc ollection[0].Address1
>
> and have a variable
> myAddressField = "Address1"
>
> how can I do something such as
> Person.addressc ollection[0].myAddressField
>
> to reach the field "Address1"?
>
> Thanks,
> Brett
>[/color]

[chris martin]

Re: Referencing Property as variable?

> If I have a collection such as:[color=blue]
> Person.addressc ollection[0].Address1
> and have a variable
> myAddressField = "Address1"
> how can I do something such as
> Person.addressc ollection[0].myAddressField
> to reach the field "Address1"?
>
> Thanks,
> Brett[/color]

public class Address
{
private string myAddressField;

...

public string Address1
{
get{ return myAddressField; }
}
}

[Brett Romero]

Re: Referencing Property as variable?

Peter, I could try something with Type.GetPropery but that means
needType.DLL will need to include all the DLLs of every type it needs.

I have an EXE project that file references this needType.DLL and A.DLL,
B.DLL, C.DLL. Those last three DLLs contain the types I'd need to use
with GetProperty in needType.DLL. If I were to reference the three
DLLs in needType.DLL, I'd have a lot of reduncy and complexity.
There'd probably be circular references.

Thanks,
Brett