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copied!<p>I was wondering if there is something in c# to be able to pass a member of a class to another function that will use this member to get a value. So get a value of a field determined only which one at runtime. Something like in other languages (PHP at least I think) that you can do</p> <pre><code>a.b = "something" </code></pre> <p>but also</p> <pre><code>a["b"] = "something"; </code></pre> <p>edit: actually not so good an example since a string is used, sorry</p> <p>For clarity an example of what I'd like to be able to do:</p> <pre><code>class A { int x; int y; } void somethingsomething<T>(T class, SomeMagicFieldClass f) { dosomethingwith(somemethodthatgivesmethevalueoffield(class, f)); } </code></pre> <p>Where then I can call the method like this:</p> <pre><code>A a = new A(); somethingsomething(a, A.x); //hypothetical notation somethingsomething(a, A.y); </code></pre> <p>I now have something similar where I do:</p> <pre><code>somethingsomething(a, "x"); somethingsomething(a, "y"); </code></pre> <p>I then go find the field using introspection API (also trying GetProperty)</p> <pre><code>MemberInfo memberInfo = item.GetType().GetField(fieldName); </code></pre> <p>This works but the disadvantage is that the fields passed as a string won't get updated when "refactoring" fieldnames in visual studio, so I was thinking maybe there exists something like this in c# that would get refactored automatically when changing field names?</p> <p>Thanks a lot for reading this boring question</p>

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