This can be done, as mentioned, with the help of Reflection Emit and a helper class I’ve included below. The code below is a work in progress, so take it for what it’s worth… ‘it works on my box’. The SelectDynamic method class should be tossed in a static extension method class. As expected, you … Read more
Yes, it does. Json.NET caches type serialization information inside its IContractResolver classes DefaultContractResolver and CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver. Unless you specify a custom contract resolver, this information is cached and reused. For DefaultContractResolver a global static instance is maintained internally that Json.NET uses whenever the application does not specify its own contract resolver. CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver, on the other hand, … Read more
When you want to treat lambda expressions as expression trees and look inside them instead of executing them. For example, LINQ to SQL gets the expression and converts it to the equivalent SQL statement and submits it to server (rather than executing the lambda). Conceptually, Expression<Func<T>> is completely different from Func<T>. Func<T> denotes a delegate … Read more
I recently did a very similar thing to make a type safe OnPropertyChanged method. Here’s a method that’ll return the PropertyInfo object for the expression. It throws an exception if the expression is not a property. public PropertyInfo GetPropertyInfo<TSource, TProperty>( TSource source, Expression<Func<TSource, TProperty>> propertyLambda) { Type type = typeof(TSource); MemberExpression member = propertyLambda.Body as … Read more