I want to set up a General Purpose type method which will have two parameters, a Business Object, and a Method Name of the business object. The method then needs to just run the method.

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Any suggestions / coding examples on how this might be accomplished (c#) would be appreciated. A few searches indicate that Func (Dot Net 3.5) or delgates could be used but I have no experience of using these constructs

You may want CallByName(). I have found it useful in doing something similar to what you describe. I have a project where just about everything is data driven, I use CallByName to execute methods whos names are stored in a table, as they are assigned by the user from a set of selections, very much like a query builder, so the value of the field "StuffToDoToSomeString" might be "TrimIt()" or "SplitCamelCase()", or ... you get the idea. Hope this might help you.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/chsc1tx6(v=vs.80).aspx

Keith Chisarik

Hi Keith,
Thanks for the information, very interesting function.

Edhy Rijo

Hi Keith . Thats exactly waht I want to do.

Unfortunately, CallByName seems to be a VB thing.. not supported in C#, but reflection and INVOKE seems to do it in C#