Lambda “if” statement?

Question

I have 2 objects, both of which I want to convert to dictionarys. I use toDictionary<>().

The lambda expression for one object to get the key is (i => i.name). For th

Answer 1

If these are two distinct (reference) types then you can test them using the is or as keywords:

i => {
         var x = i as TypeThatHasNameProperty;
         return (x != null) ? x.name : i.inner.name;
     }

If you can't test for specific types then you can use reflection to test for the name property itself:

i => {
         var pi = i.GetType().GetProperty("name");
         return (pi != null) ? pi.GetValue(i, null) : i.inner.name;
     }