Setting anonymous type property name

Question

Let's say I have the following piece of code:

string SomeConst = "OtherName";
var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person
var q = persons.Select(p => 
new
{
    SomeConst = p.Name
});

Basically I'd expect to have in q sequence of anonymous type with the property named OtherName and not SomeConst. How can I achieve such a behaviour?

Answer 1

You can't do that. The names of the properties of an anonymous type must be known at compile time. Why exactly do you need to do that?

You could achieve a similar effect by creating a sequence of dictionaries instead of anonymous objects:

string SomeConst = "OtherName";
var persons = GetPersons(); //returns list of Person
var q = persons.Select(p => 
new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    { SomeConst, p.Name }
});