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

At runtime you can use reflection to get the value of the property.

Two caveats:

• Obfuscation: An obfuscator may change the name of the property, which will break this functionality.

• Refactoring: Using reflection in this manner makes the code more difficult to refactor. If you change the name of the property, you may have to search for instances where you use reflection to get the property value based upon name.