C#

Tony_P wrote:

It's actually amazing to see that people still do stuff like that nowadays

public class AClass
{
    public AClass() : this(string.Empty) { }
    private AClass(string aValue)
    {
        AValue = aValue;
    }
    public static implicit operator AClass(string aValue)
    {
        return new AClass(aValue);
    }
    public string AValue
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

AClass aInstance = "Test String";
Console.WriteLine(aInstance.AValue);

public static class ExtensionMethods
{
    static public void SetAClass(this string value, AClass instance)
    {
        instance.AString = value;
    }

    static public void SetAClass(this int value, AClass instance)
    {
        instance.AInt = value;
    }
}
public class AClass
{
    public string AString
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
    public int AInt
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

AClass aInstance = new AClass();
"Test string".SetAClass(aInstance);
123.SetAClass(aInstance);

Zilo(svk) wrote:

and I want to assing value to AClass.AValue without actually explicitly writing

Assembly.LoadFile(string file);

Zilo(svk) wrote:

I'm using those classes to work with linq as well and it's working fine

[Table(Name = "Books")]
    public partial class Book : IDALEntity
    {
        private int _BookId;
        private string _Title;
        private int _Price;
        private int _PublisherID;      

        public Book()
        {   }

        [Column(Storage = "_BookId", AutoSync = AutoSync.OnInsert, DbType = "Int NOT NULL", IsPrimaryKey = true)]
        public int BookId
        {
            get
            {
                return this._BookId;
            }
            set
            {
               this._BookId = value;                 
            }
        }
...
}

void AssingAValue(AClass aInstance, object value)
{
    aInstance.AValue = value;
}