Match Strings to Class Properties

Question

I need to match the properties of the FixedFormatSettings . For example, I may have the strings "BitmapUnembeddableFonts" and "UsePdaA" in a string[]. If I wanted to loop through the string[], and set any matching property I find (as a string) to true (eg FixedFormatSettings.UsePdaA = true), how would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

Use next code as an example of setting properties by having a dictionary of names and their values.

var valuesToSet = new Dictionary<string, object> 
                  {
                        {"BitmapUnembeddableFonts", false}, 
                        {"UsePdaA", true}
                  };

var settings = new FixedFormatSettings();

var properties = settings.GetType()
                         .GetProperties()
                         .Where(p => p.CanWrite);

foreach (var property in properties)
{
    object valueToSet;
    if(valuesToSet.TryGetValue(property.Name, out valueToSet))
    {
        property.SetValue(settings, valueToSet);
    }
}

Console.WriteLine(settings.BitmapUnembeddableFonts); //false
Console.WriteLine(settings.UsePdaA); //true