C# Get property value from string using reflection

This post shows you how to get property value from string using reflection in c#.

For example:

public class Temperature
{
    public string Location { get; set; }
    public decimal Value { get; set; }

    public object this[string propertyName]
    {
        get { return this.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName).GetValue(this, null); }
        set { this.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName).SetValue(this, value, null); }
    }
}

To get property value in c# you can write.

Temperature t = new Temperature();
var location = t["Localtion"];
var value = Convert.ToInt32(t["Value"]);

As you can see, we will create an indexer allows you get property value from a string in c#.