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    copied!<p>I had previousily posted a question on this forum - 'to convert an internal type to a list of generic name/value pairs'. I did recieve some great answers, which pointed me in the direction of using reflection, I did a brief proof of concept and it looked good. However there has been some questions around the use of reflection, in terms of performance etc. I am wondering is there any other ways of doing this?</p> <p>See the outline of the requirement below:</p> <p>We just want to take an internal type, check if the field exists in a enum or list, and if its populated move it into a generic name/value pair list. This is so we can send out a lot of information in a general/standard way without worrying about changing schemas etc. if a new field is added. My issue is how to populate the generic structure.</p> <pre><code>[Serializable] public class Location { public string sAddress { get; set; } public string sCity { get; set; } public int iZipCode { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>Needs to be transformed into:</p> <pre><code>&lt;AttributeList&gt; &lt;Attribute&gt; &lt;Name&gt;sAddress&lt;/Name&gt; &lt;Value&gt;123 ABC Street&lt;/Value&gt; &lt;DataType&gt;string&lt;/DataType&gt; &lt;/Attribute&gt; &lt;/AttributeList&gt; </code></pre> <p>Repeat for sCity and iZipCode. Only way I can think of (without using reflection) is to manually code for each field on the internal structure - bit seems very ineffecticent to me</p> <p>Any ideas would be appreciated!!</p>
 

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