How to get a property value based on the name

Question

is there a way to get the value of a property of a object based on its name   For example if I have   public class Car   Vehicle      public string Make   get  set        and  var car   new Car   Make  Ford       I want to write a method where I can pass in the property name and it would return the property value  ie   public string GetPropertyValue string propertyName       return the value of the property

User · Accepted Answer

return car GetType   GetProperty propertyName  GetValue car  null

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You want Reflection  Type t   typeof Car   PropertyInfo prop   t GetProperty  Make    if null    prop  return prop GetValue this  null

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To avoid reflection you could set up a Dictionary with your propery names as keys and functions in the dictionary value part that return the corresponding values from the properties that you request

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Simple sample  without write reflection hard code in the client   class Customer       public string CustomerName   get  set        public string Address   get  set           approach here     public string GetPropertyValue string propertyName                try                       return this GetType   GetProperty propertyName  GetValue this  null  as string                    catch   return null              use sample static void Main string   args                var customer   new Customer   CustomerName    Harvey Triana   Address    Something                Console WriteLine customer GetPropertyValue  CustomerName

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You d have to use reflection  public object GetPropertyValue object car  string propertyName       return car GetType   GetProperties          Single pi   gt  pi Name    propertyName         GetValue car  null       If you want to be really fancy  you could make it an extension method   public static object GetPropertyValue this object car  string propertyName       return car GetType   GetProperties          Single pi   gt  pi Name    propertyName         GetValue car  null       And then   string makeValue    string car GetPropertyValue  Make

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In addition other guys answer  its Easy to get property value of any object by use Extension method like   public static class Helper               public static object GetPropertyValue this object T  string PropName                        return T GetType   GetProperty PropName     null   null   T GetType   GetProperty PropName  GetValue T  null                      Usage is   Car foo   new Car    var balbal   foo GetPropertyValue  Make

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Expanding on Adam Rackis s answer - we can make the extension method generic simply like this   public static TResult GetPropertyValue lt TResult gt  this object t  string propertyName        object val   t GetType   GetProperties   Single pi   gt  pi Name    propertyName  GetValue t  null       return  TResult val      You can throw some error handling around that too if you like

[c#] How to get a property value based on the name

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