Merging anonymous types

Question

How can I merge two anonymous types, so that the result contains the properties of both source objects?

var source1 = new
{
    foo = \"foo\",
    bar = \"ba         


        

Answer 1

The following works in .NET 3.5 (and probably 2.0 as well). I modified davehauser's answer.

    public static object MergeJsonData(object item1, object item2)
    {
        if (item1 == null || item2 == null)
            return item1 ?? item2 ?? new object();

        var result = new Dictionary();
        foreach (System.Reflection.PropertyInfo fi in item1.GetType().GetProperties().Where(x => x.CanRead))
        {
            var Value = fi.GetValue(item1, null);
            result[fi.Name] = Value;
        }
        foreach (System.Reflection.PropertyInfo fi in item2.GetType().GetProperties().Where(x => x.CanRead))
        {
            var Value = fi.GetValue(item2, null);
            result[fi.Name] = Value;
        }
        return result;
    }