How can I get a value of a property from an anonymous type?

Question

I have a datagrid populated by a Linq query. When the focused row in the datagrid changes I need to set a variable equal to one of the properties in that object.

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Answer 1

If you know what you are doing and are not afraid of getting runtime errors when your code changes, you could cast your row data as dynamic:

var data = view.GetRow(rowHandle) as dynamic;  

int clientId      = data.ClientID;
string clientName = data.ClientName;
int jobs          = data.Jobs

No Compile-time verification. But it should work nicely.