How do I reflect over the members of dynamic object?

Question

I need to get a dictionary of properties and their values from an object declared with the dynamic keyword in .NET 4? It seems using reflection for this will not work.

Answer 1

Requires Newtonsoft Json.Net

A little late, but I came up with this. It gives you just the keys and then you can use those on the dynamic:

public List GetPropertyKeysForDynamic(dynamic dynamicToGetPropertiesFor)
{
    JObject attributesAsJObject = dynamicToGetPropertiesFor;
    Dictionary values = attributesAsJObject.ToObject>();
    List toReturn = new List();
    foreach (string key in values.Keys)
    {
        toReturn.Add(key);                
    }
    return toReturn;
}

Then you simply foreach like this:

foreach(string propertyName in GetPropertyKeysForDynamic(dynamicToGetPropertiesFor))
{
    dynamic/object/string propertyValue = dynamicToGetPropertiesFor[propertyName];
    // And
    dynamicToGetPropertiesFor[propertyName] = "Your Value"; // Or an object value
}

Choosing to get the value as a string or some other object, or do another dynamic and use the lookup again.