Is it possible to pass in a property name as a string and assign a value to it?

Question

I\'m setting up a simple helper class to hold some data from a file I\'m parsing. The names of the properties match the names of values that I expect to find in the file.

Answer 1

Using reflection you get the property using the name and set its value... something like:

Type t = this.GetType();
var prop = t.GetProperty(propName);
prop.SetValue(this, value, null);