How do I create a delegate for a .NET property?

Question

I am trying to create a delegate (as a test) for:

Public Overridable ReadOnly Property PropertyName() As String

My intuitive attempt was de

Answer 1

Re the problem using AddressOf - if you know the prop-name at compile time, you can (in C#, at least) use an anon-method / lambda:

Test t = delegate { return e.PropertyName; }; // C# 2.0
Test t = () => e.PropertyName; // C# 3.0

I'm not a VB expert, but reflector claims this is the same as:

Dim t As Test = Function 
    Return e.PropertyName
End Function

Does that work?

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Original answer:

You create delegates for properties with Delegate.CreateDelegate; this can be open for any instance of the type, of fixed for a single instance - and can be for getter or setter; I'll give an example in C#...

using System;
using System.Reflection;
class Foo
{
    public string Bar { get; set; }
}
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        PropertyInfo prop = typeof(Foo).GetProperty("Bar");
        Foo foo = new Foo();

        // create an open "getter" delegate
        Func getForAnyFoo = (Func)
            Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func), null,
                prop.GetGetMethod());

        Func getForFixedFoo = (Func)
            Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func), foo,
                prop.GetGetMethod());

        Action setForAnyFoo = (Action)
            Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action), null,
                prop.GetSetMethod());

        Action setForFixedFoo = (Action)
            Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action), foo,
                prop.GetSetMethod());

        setForAnyFoo(foo, "abc");
        Console.WriteLine(getForAnyFoo(foo));
        setForFixedFoo("def");
        Console.WriteLine(getForFixedFoo());
    }
}