In ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1, we introduced some syntactic sugar for creating and accessing view data using new dynamic properties. Sugar, it’s not just for breakfast. Within a controller action, the ViewModel property of Controller allows setting and accessing view data via property accessors that are resolved dynamically at runtime. From within a view, the View property provides the same thing (see the addendum at the bottom of this post for why these property names do not match). Disclaimer This blog post talks about ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1,...
UPDATE: Looks like the CLR already has something similar to what I did here. Meet the latest class with a superhero sounding name, ExpandoObject
Warning: What I’m about to show you is quite possibly an abuse of the C# language. Then again, maybe it’s not. ;) You’ve been warned. Ruby has a neat feature that allows you to hook into method calls for which the method is not defined. In such cases, Ruby will call a method on your class named method_missing. I showed an example of this using IronRuby a while back when I wrote about monkey patching CLR...