Casting anonymous type to dynamic

Question

I have a function that returns an anonymous type which I want to test in my MVC controller.

public JsonResult Foo()
{
    var data = new
                  {
         


        

Answer 1

Anonymous objects are internal, which means their members are very restricted outside of the assembly that declares them. dynamic respects accessibility, so pretends not to be able to see those members. If the call-site was in the same assembly, I expect it would work.

Your reflection code respects the member accessibility, but bypasses the type's accessibility - hence it works.

In short: no.