This is an add-in for Fody

Provides methodof, propertyof and fieldof equivalents of typeof .

Introduction to Fody

The nuget package

https://nuget.org/packages/InfoOf.Fody/

PM> Install-Package InfoOf.Fody

Your Code

var type = Info.OfType("AssemblyName", "MyClass");
var method = Info.OfMethod("AssemblyName", "MyClass", "MyMethod");
var getProperty = Info.OfPropertyGet("AssemblyName", "MyClass", "MyProperty");
var setProperty = Info.OfPropertySet("AssemblyName", "MyClass", "MyProperty");
var field = Info.OfField("AssemblyName", "MyClass", "myField");

What gets compiled

var type = typeof(MyClass);
var method = methodof(MyClass.MyMethod);
var getProperty = methodof(MyClass.get_MyProperty)
var setProperty = methodof(MyClass.set_MyProperty)
var field = fieldof(MyClass.myField);

Why not use Expressions

It would also be possible to define members and types using a combination of generics and expressions. This would allow for intellisense at code time. The problem with expressions are as follows

1. The conversion of expression to "infoof"s is significantly more complex. Making the solution more complex and having a negative impact on compile performance.
2. Expressions cannot represent non public types or members.
3. It is difficult to represent all combinations of members using expressions.

But it is not strong typed

Actually it is strong type, it just does not have intellisense. If any of the strings passed into Info do not map to a type or member it will log a build error and stop the build.

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