LINQ to Entities - Addressing class properties with their string names

Question

I have a Kendo grid that has serverside filtering turned on. The field to filter by is passed as a string. For example, I want to filter by \"SampleId\". Now, I need to writ

Answer 1

I didn't think any of these answered actually how to do the getproperty so included my working code after further research. mymodelclass is the class of the entity/model used to MyFilteredData.

        var srchItem1 = typeof(mymodelclass).GetProperty("Name");
        var srchItem2 = typeof(mymodelclass).GetProperty("Description");
        var srchItem3 = typeof(mymodelclass).GetProperty("LongDescription");
        if (MySearchText != null && srchItem1 != null)
            {
                if (srchItem2 == null) { srchItem2 = srchItem1; }
                if (srchItem3 == null) { srchItem3 = srchItem1; }
                MyFilteredData = MyFilteredData.
                        Where(c => srchItem1.GetValue(c).ToString().ToLower().Contains(MySearchText.ToLower()) ||
                        srchItem2.GetValue(c).ToString().ToLower().Contains(MySearchText.ToLower()) ||
                        srchItem3.GetValue(c).ToString().ToLower().Contains(MySearchText.ToLower())
                );
            }