I'm fairly new to c# and I hope there is already an easy way to do this.

After using the BLL to read an Article, I want to use a variable to reference the individual field names. i.e.,

Article["Title"] would give me the value of Article.Title.

The quoted field name are coming from an array and won't include every field in the Article.

Thanks for any help.

dsr771 - this is just my opinion. i don't think it's a great idea to bypass strongly types variables, as further down the line, you are bound to make some changes to the structure (or scaling it up) that will cause a lot of reworking. i'm just curious to know why you propose using the array, rather than using the article class from the BLL. there would be no 'expense' in using the the article class even if you didn't want to use all of the properties.

there is obviously a reason why you want to go down this route (reflection??) and if that were described, then i think it'd be perhaps easier to address the issue above based on your reasoning.

all the best for now

jimi

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Thanks for the reply. I do want to use the object for most functions. I ran into a problem where I have form fields on multiple tabs of a ajax tab container and asp.net doesn't see those controls and does not update the data. So I'm building a workaround since my project requires use of tabs with data fields on more than one tab.

I'm writing code in the ItemUpdating event to find the control on the correct tab and copy the values back to the FormUpdateEventArgs e.

I use:
oldData = BLL.Aritlces.Article.GetArticleByID(x);
then I loop a hash table that defines my fields and which tabpanel they are on. Then search for the control SelTabPanel.FindControl(), then:

e.OldValues[key] = oldData[key]; // I want to do this instead of oldDate.ColumnName
e.NewValues[key] = txtBox.Text;

I suppose if I could convert oldData to a DataRow or something.

This process does save my data and it works well to monitor changes.

I welcome any ideas. Hope this makes sense.