Accessing C# property name or attributes

Question

I would like to automatically generate SQL statements from a class instance. The method should look like Update(object[] Properties, object PrimaryKeyProperty). The method is pa

Answer 1

Just wrote an implementation of this for a presentation on lambdas for our usergroup last Tuesday.

• You can do

  MembersOf.GetName(x => x.Status)

• Or

  var a = new Animal() a.MemberName(x => x.Status)

the code:

public static class MembersOf {
    public static string GetName(Expression> expr) {
        var node = expr.Body as MemberExpression;
        if (object.ReferenceEquals(null, node)) 
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Expression must be of member access");
        return node.Member.Name;
    }
}

• Link to the presentation and code samples.
• Also in SVN (more likely to be updated): http://gim-projects.googlecode.com/svn/presentations/CantDanceTheLambda