Return value of property from object and property name

Question

Given an object and the name of a property, I'm trying to use reflection to get the value of that property. I've seen several threads here that are getting me close, but I'm not nailing it just yet. I happen to know that the value will be of type string.

public string GetPropValue(object src, string propName)
{
    return src.GetType().GetProperty(propName).GetValue(????);
}

That thread is one that I looked at carefully. But in that example, the method is returning an object, and not a string which would be the value of propName. I'm trying to modify that example just a little. — Casey Crookston, Aug 25 '16 at 16:40
Sorry, but it really is duplicate. You can adjust the answer from the related question for your needs. You can convert the returned `object` to `string` the same way as you would do that for regular `object` variable, thus that part has nothing in common with reflection. — Ivan Stoev, Aug 25 '16 at 16:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '16 at 16:43

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Just pass the src object like this:

public string GetPropValue(object src, string propName)
{
    return src.GetType().GetProperty(propName).GetValue(src, null).ToString();
}

answered Aug 25 '16 at 16:43

Umair M

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