Change property by variable

[raphael232]

Hi, i want to change a property of an object by a variable name ie say i have:

'usual way of doing things
document.title = "Document Title"
document.description = "Description of document"

and i have

' what i need to do
Dim column As String = "keywords"
document.column = "Keywords of document"

Therefore i am getting the properties name based on the value stored in the column variable. The problem i have is that the above does nork as it looks for column as a property of the object instead of looking for keywords as a property.

Appreciate if someone could help. Thanks

 

[ca8msm]

Have a look into System.Reflection


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[raphael232]

Hi cheers for replying but you've lost me a bit. I tried googling system.reflection but i don't understand it. Forgot to mention that i'm abit of newbie when it comes to asp.net.

 

[ca8msm]

If you have a look at the help files (

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.aspx)

you'll see that it says:

The System.Reflection namespace contains types that retrieve information about assemblies, modules, members, parameters, and other entities in managed code by examining their metadata

so you can use this namespace to "examine" a class or object.


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