How to translate string to Object

[hoyaabanks]

Is there some sort of evaluation function in .Net that will let you take a string and evaluate it as an object?

ex:

//Contact is a custom Object that contains properties for FirstName
//And LastName

Contact c = new Contact( "Alex Banks" );

//This would write the value of the FirstName
//Which in this case is Alex
Response.Write( c.FirstName );

//Now lets say we have a string that looks like this:
string myObjString = "c.FirstName";

//Is there a way to change this string into regular object code
//So that we can use this string to access the value of c.FirstName?

//For example in ActionScript you can say something like this:

var theName = eval(myObjString);

-or-

var theName = eval("c.FirstName');

-or-

var theLastName = eval("c").LastName;

//How can I go about doing something similar in C#.NET?

[Phil Weber]

I don't know of any way to evaluate the variable name ("c" in your example), but given an object instance, you can use reflection to access its fields, properties and methods: http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Cshar...cle.php/c4257/