How do I iterate over the properties of an anonymous object in C#?
- by Tomas Lycken
I want to take an anonymous object as argument to a method, and then iterate over its properties to add each property/value to a a dynamic ExpandoObject.
So what I need is to go from
new { Prop1 = "first value", Prop2 = SomeObjectInstance, Prop3 = 1234 }
to knowing names and values of each property, and being able to add them to the ExpandoObject.
How do I accomplish this?
Side note: This will be done in many of my unit tests (I'm using it to refactor away a lot of junk in the setup), so performance is to some extent relevant. I don't know enough about reflection to say for sure, but from what I've understood it's pretty performance heavy, so if it's possible I'd rather avoid it...
Follow-up question:
As I said, I'm taking this anonymous object as an argument to a method. What datatype should I use in the method's signature? Will all properties be available if I use object?
