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    <p>You are facing two separate problems:</p> <ul> <li>Invoking chained methods, and</li> <li>Invoking methods that take lambdas as parameters</li> </ul> <p>Let's deal with the two separately.</p> <p>Let's say that you have the following information available:</p> <ul> <li>A <code>ConstructorInfo</code> representing the first item in the chain (the constructor)</li> <li>An array of objects representing constructor's parameters</li> <li>An array of <code>MethodInfo</code> objects - one for each chained function</li> <li>An array of object arrays representing parameters of each chained function</li> </ul> <p>Then the process of constructing the result would look like this:</p> <pre><code>ConstructorInfo constr = ... object[] constrArgs = ... MethodInfo[] chainedMethods = ... object[][] chainedArgs = ... object res = constr.Invoke(constrArgs); for (int i = 0 ; i != chainedMethods.Length ; i++) { // The chaining magic happens here: res = chainedMethods[i].Invoke(res, chainedArgs[i]); } </code></pre> <p>Once the loop is over, your <code>res</code> contains a configured object.</p> <p>The code above assumes that there are no generic methods among the chained methods; if some of the methods happen to be generic, you would need an additional step in making a callable instance of a generic method before calling <code>Invoke</code>.</p> <p>Now let's look at the lambdas. Depending on the type of the lambda that is passed to the method, you need to pass a delegate with a particular signature. You should be able to use <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.delegate.aspx" rel="nofollow"><code>System.Delegate</code></a> class to convert methods into callable delegates. You may need to create support methods that implement the delegates that you need. It is hard to say how without seeing the exact methods that you must be able to call through reflection. You may need to go for expression trees, and get <code>Func&lt;...&gt;</code> instances after compiling them. The call of <code>x.Color("Red")</code> would look like this:</p> <pre><code>Expression arg = Expression.Parameter(typeof(MyCarType)); Expression red = Expression.Constant("Red"); MethodInfo color = typeof(MyCarType).GetMethod("Color"); Expression call = Expression.Call(arg, color, new[] {red}); var lambda = Expression.Lambda(call, new[] {arg}); Action&lt;MyCarType&gt; makeRed = (Action&lt;MyCarType&gt;)lambda.Compile(); </code></pre>
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    1. COMany thanks das.. so using your provided code - could the "makeRed" Action object be stored in "chainedArgs" and executed during the "Invoke()" call during the chaining loop?
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    2. CO@mmacneil007 Absolutely, that's the idea. `Action<MyCarType>` is a delegate that can be stored in one of the arrays inside the `chainedArgs` array of arrays, to be passed to its corresponding method (in your case, that would be `OtherProperties`).
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    3. COExcellent, I believe this has set me on the right path. Still wrapping my head around expression trees but I think the approach you've outlined here should do the trick. Thanks again!
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