Reflection
I posted a question late last week to a couple listserves I'm on:
Given only a string variable containing the name of the property you wish to call, how does one go about calling it?
The answer came back fivefold nearly immediately: “Use reflection. It's really easy.” Oh goody, thinkest I, a chance to learn something.
For those of you who haven't picked it up yet, there's really not much to the concept. By far the most helpful thing I found, was Bipin Joshi's article covering it, on DotNetBips.com:
Introduction to .NET Reflection
Happy reading!