Property Name and need its value

Question

I have a name of a property and need to find its value within a Class, what is the fastest way of getting to this value?

Answer 1

I am making the assumption that you have the name of the property in runtime; not while coding...

Let's assume your class is called TheClass and it has a property called TheProperty:

object GetThePropertyValue(object instance)
{
    Type type = instance.GetType();
    PropertyInfo propertyInfo = type.GetProperty("TheProperty");
    return propertyInfo.GetValue(instance, null);
}