WPF Assigning control Properties using reflection in c sharp

Question

I am trying to create an application that creates objects from data that is read from an XML file.

Using reflection I have managed to create the objects I need and assign some of the properties like primitive types and ENUM types.

For primitive types where property is a Dictionary entry with the Property name to change and the value to set

 type.GetProperty((string)property.Key).SetValue(control, Convert.ChangeType((string)property.Value, propertyType, null), null);

and for ENUM types

object desiredPropertyValue = Enum.Parse(propertyType, (string)property.Value);
                    propertyInfo.SetValue(control, desiredPropertyValue, null);

The problem I have is that I can't seem to find a way to set other types of properties like Fontweight, fontfamily, Margin and many others I think these are of type structure, any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

You can use the associated type converters to convert the objects to/from a string. For example, for FontWeight you can use the FontWeightConverter like so:

object value = new FontWeightConverter().ConvertFromString((string)property.Value)

Likewise, you can use ConvertToString to convert to a string for saving in your dictionary.