Re: Passing property Accesor as Function`

What I don't understand is why your method doesn't simple return the data
instead of trying to pass a property by reference. I assume there is some
underlying issue that isn't obvious from the code

Regards

Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of development on the .NET platform using any managed
> language [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brady
> Kelly
> Sent: 19 November 2007 06:22
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-CLR] Passing property Accesor as Function`
>
> Warning:  This is a purely academic and speculative post.
>
>
>
> This has suddenly become a real 'would like to have' feature in the
> project
> I'm currently working on.  I know this isn't possible in standard C#,
> but
> I'm trying to find a hammer with the right weight and shape to beat
> this
> into some semblance of working.  What I would like to achieve is
> something
> like this, in the commented line:
>
>
>
>     public class PersonForm
>
>     {
>
>         System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textRate = new TextBox();
>
>         public void BuildPerson(Person person)
>
>         {
>
>             Person pers = new Person();
>
>             pers.HourlyRate = textRate.Text.Length == 0 ? (double?)
> null :
> double.Parse(textRate.Text);
>
>             // SetPropertyFromText(pers.HourlyRate, textRate.Text)
>
>         }
>
>     }
>
>
>
> My SetPropertyFromText should take the pers.HourlyRate as a delegate
> parameter, not as a double?, determine the correct type conversion
> based on
> the type of the pers.HourlyRate, and set the property to the converted
> object value.
>
>
>
> I can easily use a property name as my property parameter for
> SetPropertyFromText, but then I lose compile time checks.  Our
> generated
> DAL, nettiers, provides, for each entity, an Enum with all the column
> properties for each entity, and I think this is about as close as I've
> seen
> to what I want, but not quite there.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on the matter?
>
>
>
>
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