Thread: Dynamic Variable Naming

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    Question Dynamic Variable Naming

    Hi,

    Is there any way in c# that you can name custom objects on the fly?

    I 'm trying to create a method which checks if a "Workload" object exists against a "User" object, and if not it creates one.

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    I'm not sure what you mean, but I think your looking for some kind of map/dictionary type of structure ?

    C# has a collection class called NameValueCollection. It's similar to an STL map if thats what your looking for.

    NameValueCollection Class (System.Collections.Specialized)

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    Not until C# 4.0 and "Dynamic objects" is released.
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    You can also use a Dictionary<string, MyClass> (or, if you want objects of different types, Dictionary<string, object> ).
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    Code:
    WeatherStation station, DateTime predictionDate
    can we define the variables in c sharp like this?i am looking through some codes here and while compiling got the error saying"are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference cs0246"
    and it is showing error for this variables. I tried to remove it but the program have used the variable name station and predictionDate in the program. So can you help me out?

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    You can if you define them somewhere and add a semicolon instead of the comma.

    Code:
    WeatherStation station;
    DateTime predictionDate;
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