根据其名称字符串调用Property

Question

I need to call a public property of a class based on the string value of its name, as I won't know until run time what properties are required. I'm trying to use reflections unsuccessfully. The class looks like this:

class FieldCalculation
{
    public string MyValue
    {
        get
        {
            return "Test Data";
        }
    }
}

I think access the value of the property should look something like this:

FieldCalculation myClass = new FieldCalculation();
string value = myClass.GetType().GetProperty("MyValue");

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You nearly had it. What you were doing was getting the property definition . You need to ask that property to get you the value, and you pass it the instance. This is the working code:

FieldCalculation myClass = new FieldCalculation();
string value = (string)myClass.GetType().GetProperty("MyValue").GetValue(myClass);