Hi,
Today i'll talking about a new Collection Type i've developped named AnonymousCollection in order to store C# Anonymous Types.
It's a begining so i would be pretty happy to get some feedbacks about that so as to make it better :)
First of all here is the AnonymousCollection implementation
I used some Reflection with TypeDescriptor and PropertyDescriptor to get Properties of the AnonymousType.
public class AnonymousCollectionItem
{
public IDictionary<String, Object> Values
{
get;
private set;
}
public AnonymousCollectionItem()
{
Values = new Dictionary<String, Object>();
}
public void Add(Object o)
{
foreach (PropertyDescriptor property in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(o))
{
Object val = property.GetValue(o);
Values.Add(property.Name, val);
}
}
public Object GetValue(String key)
{
return Values[key];
}
public void SetValue(String key, Object val)
{
Values[key] = val;
}
}
public class AnonymousCollection : List<AnonymousCollectionItem>
{
public new void Add(AnonymousCollectionItem item)
{
base.Add(item);
}
public void Add(Object o)
{
AnonymousCollectionItem item = new AnonymousCollectionItem();
item.Add(o);
base.Add(item);
}
}And the usage of my Collection
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Add Elements To Collection
AnonymousCollection col = new AnonymousCollection();
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
var myType = new { ID = i, FirstName = "Scott", Email = "foo@foo.com" };
// Standard Add Method
col.Add(myType);
// Using Newly created AnonymousCollectionItem element
AnonymousCollectionItem item = new AnonymousCollectionItem();
item.Add(myType);
col.Add(item);
}
// Display All Collection Elements
foreach (var item in col)
{
foreach (var o in item.Values)
{
Console.WriteLine(o.ToString());
}
}
// Change One Element Value
col[0].SetValue("FirstName", "BLAH");
Console.WriteLine(col[0].GetValue("FirstName"));
}
}Thanks in advance, hope this help's.
Stay Tuned !
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