Setting anonymous type property name

Question

Let's say I have the following piece of code:

string SomeConst = "OtherName"; var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person var q = persons.Select(p =>  new {     SomeConst = p.Name }); 

Basically I'd expect to have in q sequence of anonymous type with the property named OtherName and not SomeConst. How can I achieve such a behaviour?

Answer 1

You can't do that. The names of the properties of an anonymous type must be known at compile time. Why exactly do you need to do that?

You could achieve a similar effect by creating a sequence of dictionaries instead of anonymous objects:

string SomeConst = "OtherName"; var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person var q = persons.Select(p =>  new Dictionary<string, string> {     { SomeConst, p.Name } });