Re: Reflection and variable selection? Late binding?

Hi Ben,

No reflection or binding needed:

string text = null;

switch (variableName)
{
case "foo":
text = foo.ToString();
break;
case "bar":
text = bar.ToString();
break;
}

MessageBox.Show(text);


I'm not sure it's such a good idea to pass in the name of a local variable though. An Enum would be appropriate here instead:

enum DoSomethingChoice
{
Foo,
Bar
}

class FooBarChoiceTest
{
int foo = 1, bar = 2;

void DoSomething(DoSomethingChoice choice)
{
string text = null;

switch (choice)
{
case DoSomethingChoice.Foo:
text = foo.ToString();
break;
case DoSomethingChoice.Bar:
text = bar.ToString();
break;
default:
throw new System.ComponentModel.InvalidEnumArgumentException(
"choice", (int) choice, typeof(DoSomethingChoice));
}

MessageBox.Show(text);
}
}

--
Dave Sexton

"Ben R." <benr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AF6EED6C-7C1C-4C7B-93D2-2A01231C7552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I learned that for my.sttings, I can pull an entry by name, but can I use
reflection to load a varaible? Example

void dosomething(string variablename)
// note: value passed in for variable name is "foo"
int foo=1
int bar=2

messagebox.show(reflectionhere(variablename));

I want 1 to show up.

Is this possible? Is this what late binding is? There are circumstances
where it'd be nice to construct a string which will represent a varaible name
that I'd like to use.

Thank you...

-Ben





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