Setting anonymous type property name

Question

Let\'s say I have the following piece of code:

string SomeConst = \"OtherName\";
var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person
var q = persons.Select(         


        

Answer 1

You can't do that. The names of the properties of an anonymous type must be known at compile time. Why exactly do you need to do that?

You could achieve a similar effect by creating a sequence of dictionaries instead of anonymous objects:

string SomeConst = "OtherName";
var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person
var q = persons.Select(p => 
new Dictionary
{
    { SomeConst, p.Name }
});