Get property values from a string using Reflection - c#-4.0

Question

I am new to this concept of reflection and finding problem in retrieving property value from a string. E.g.
I have a class Employee with following properties :
public string Name {get;set;}
public int Age {get;set;}
public string EmployeeID {get;set;}
string s = "Name=ABCD;Age=25;EmployeeID=A12";
I want to retrieve the value of each property from this string and create a new object of Employee with those values retrieved from the string for each field.
Can anyone please suggest how it can be done using reflection ??

Answer 1

//may be..
string s = "Name=ABCD;Age=25;EmployeeID=A12";
string[] words = s.Split(';');
foreach (string word in words)
{
string[] data = word.Split('=');
string _data = data[1];
Console.WriteLine(Name);
}

Answer 2

Here an example of how you maybe could do it
it used Reflection like you wanted ^^
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
namespace replace
{
public class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
var s = "Name=ABCD;Age=25;EmployeeID=A12";
var list = s.Split(';');
var dic = new Dictionary<string, object>();
foreach (var item in list)
{
var probVal = item.Split('=');
dic.Add(probVal[0], probVal[1]);
}
var obj = new MyClass();
PropertyInfo[] properties = obj.GetType().GetProperties();
foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
{
Console.WriteLine(dic[property.Name]);
if (property.PropertyType == typeof(Int32))
property.SetValue(obj, Convert.ToInt32(dic[property.Name]));
//else if (property.PropertyType== typeof(yourtype))
// property.SetValue(obj, (yourtype)dic[property.Name]);
else
property.SetValue(obj, dic[property.Name]);
}
Console.WriteLine("------------");
Console.WriteLine(obj.Name);
Console.WriteLine(obj.Age);
Console.WriteLine(obj.EmployeeID);
Console.Read();
}
}
public class MyClass
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
public string EmployeeID { get; set; }
}
}