Turn Anonymous Types into IDictionary of values
Hers is one cool use I found for Anonymous Types (stolen from the ASP.NET MVC Framework): Use anonymous types to create and initialize a list of dictionary values which you can pass around:
void CreateADictionaryFromAnonymousType()
{
var dictionary = MakeDictionary(new {Name="Roy",Country="Israel"});
Console.WriteLine(dictionary["Name"]);
}
private IDictionary MakeDictionary(object withProperties)
{
IDictionary dic = new Dictionary<string, object>();
var properties = System.ComponentModel.TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(withProperties);
foreach (PropertyDescriptor property in properties)
{
dic.Add(property.Name,property.GetValue(withProperties));
}
return dic;
}