How to assign values to a property whose name is in a string?

Question

I want to assign value to the property of the object of class. I have taken the list of property names using GetProperties();

      PropertyInfo [] props;
      props=typeof(Import_Column).GetProperties();

I have created an object

      Import_Column myobj=new Import_Column();

I want to do something like

      myobj.props[2]=value; //giving me error

How can i do it? is there any different approach?

Answer 1

You need to set the value to the property of the current object instance

string propertyName = "TheNameOfThePropertyToSet";
myobj.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName).SetValue(myobj, value, null);

or in your case you could use

myobj.GetType().GetProperty(props[2].Name).SetValue(myobj, value, null);