how to create expression tree / lambda for a deep property from a string

Question

Given a string: \"Person.Address.Postcode\" I want to be able to get/set this postcode property on an instance of Person. How can I do this? My idea was to split the string

Answer 1

If anyone is interested in the performance trade-off between the simple reflection approach (also nice examples here and here) and Marc's Expression-building approach...

My test involved getting a relatively deep property (A.B.C.D.E) 10,000 times.

1. Simple reflection: 64 ms
2. Expression-building: 1684 ms

Obviously this is a very specific test, and I haven't considered optimisations or setting properties, but I think a 26x performance hit is worth noting.