Create a function that takes a Property and a Value as a parameter

This might be a little out there, but lets say that I really want to pass a property of a complex class to a function that will assign the property a value.

Example:

Private Void AssignValueToProperty(Property property, Object Value)
{
property = Value
}

Form1_Load()
{
AssignValueToProperty(This.BackColor, Color.Red)
AssignValueToProperty(This.Text, "Form1")
AssignValueToProperty(This.Size, new Size(500,500))
}

Is such a function possible, maybe using tools like reflection can someone post a quick example of how I would do this

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Create a function that takes a Property and a Value as a parameter

ritzratz
Badass, Thanks
A1Programmer

not quite sure what you mean. you can use the public properties approach. Example:

//top of class, global variable declaration:

private string theName = String.Empty;

public string TheName

{

get { return this.theName; }

set { this.theName = value; }

}

then access it from another class or the same class:

this.TheName = "test123";

MessageBox.Show(this.TheName);

would show "test123"
Dhaval-Patel

Hi,

yes, you could do this with the help of Reflection:

private void AssignValueToProperty(object myObject, string propertyName, object propertyValue)
{
Type type = myObject.GetType();
PropertyInfo propertyInfo = type.GetProperty(propertyName);
propertyInfo.SetValue(myObject, propertyValue, null);
}

AssignValueToProperty(textBox1, "Text", "This is a new text");

Andrej
Create a function that takes a Property and a Value as a parameter

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