Dynamically creating and registering properties in ReadOnlyBase<T>?

[michaelcsikos]

Has anyone experimented with read-only objects with dynamic properties?

I have a situation where I want an info object which I can bind to a DataGridView in WinForms .NET 4.8, but the properties will all be user-defined. This project is using CSLA 4.11.2.

Alternatively, I could define something like 200 properties at compile time which pass through to a dictionary or list.

[michaelcsikos]

If we have to inherit from DynamicObject I can't see how this would be possible.

[rockfordlhotka]

I suspect it would be a fair amount of work. Still, the only real requirement for base types in CSLA now is that they implement IMobileObject.

To do what you describe your type will have to maintain a dictionary of property names and values I assume? Those map to the dynamic properties exposed by the type?

You can probably implement IMobileObject to serialize/deserialize those property values - especially if they are all "primitive" types directly supported by MobileFormatter, it shouldn't be too hard.

[ajohnstone-ks]

I've had to do something similar. Basically we use Csla and the object has a MobileDictionary<string, string>, then on the client we use the dictionary to build a DataTable and bind the grid to the data table. If having the values as a string is a problem you could return a string with xml, and then parse the xml. That way you can include the data type of each value as well. But I don't think you'd be able to have BOs with editable properties in the grid.