What is the best way to merge two objects during runtime using C#?

Question

I have two objects and I want to merge them:

public class Foo
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class Bar
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    p         


        

Answer 1

If you can add a method to the metadata class you could do something like the following

public class Foo
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public void SerializeWithMetadata(Bar bar)
    {
       var obj = new {
                       Name = this.Name,
                       Guid = bar.Guid,
                       Property1 = Bar.Property1
                      }
       //Serialization code goes here
    }
}

public class Bar
{
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public string Property1 { get; set; }
    public string Property2 { get; set; }
    public string Property3 { get; set; }
    public string Property4 { get; set; }
}

I'm not sure I would recommend this exact approach I mainly left it here to display anonymous types as a possible option that might be worth exploring