What's an elegant solution to get the property values from two classes (that have the same property names) that do not use inheritance?

Essentially I have to use a poorly implemented web service maintained by other programmers. They have two classes that don't derive from a parent class, but have the same properties (Ughh...). So it looks like this in my web service proxy class file:

public partial class Product1
{
    publ开发者_如何学JAVAic int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

public partial class Product2
{
    public int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

So what's the best way to grab the values from known properties without duplicating the code? I know I probably could use reflection, but that can get ugly. If there is an easier less crazier way to do it (maybe in the new c# features?) please let me know.

I'm not sure I fully understand your situation, but maybe something like this? Define an IProduct interface with getQuantity and getPrice methods, and implement it in both classes:

public partial class Product1 : IProduct
{
  public int Quantity;
  public int Price;
  public int getQuantity() { return Quantity; }
  public int getPrice() { return Price; }
}

And similarly for the other one; then just use them both as IProduct.

If the classes are generated from a web proxy, then you could implement a partial class that implemented a common interface.

From Proxy Gen:

public partial class Product1 {
    public int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

public partial class Product2 {
    public int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

Hand written:

public interface IProduct {
    int Quantity { get; }
    int Price { get; }
}

public partial class Product1:IProduct {
    int IProduct.Quantity { get { return Quantity; } }
    int IProduct.Price { get { return Price; } }
}

public partial class Product2:IProduct {
    int IProduct.Quantity { get { return Quantity; } }
    int IProduct.Price { get { return Price; } }
}

Now both your classes implement IProduct and can be passed around the same way.

Dynamic keyword in 4.0? but I wouldn't say it's elegant, but it will work.

here is some pseudocode sorry for don't working it out. Maybe this gives you the right direction:

List objects = new List(); objects.Add(p1);//your first product object objects.Add(p2);//your second product object

    foreach (var o in objects)//go through all projects
    {

        if (o.GetType().Equals(typeof(Product1)) //check which class is behind the object
            ((Product1)o).Price = 2; //convert to fitting class and call your property
        //....
    }