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Been using a Copy method with this code in it in various places in previous projects (to deal with objects that have same named properties but do not derive from a common base class or implement a common interface).

New place of work, new codebase - now it's failing at the SetValue with "Object does not match target type" even on very simple examples... and it worked last week....

    public static void Copy(object fromObj, object toObj)
        Type fromObjectType = fromObj.GetType();
        Type toObjectType = toObj.GetType();
        foreach (System.Reflection.PropertyInfo fromProperty in 
            fromObjectType.GetProperties())
            if (fromProperty.CanRead)
                string propertyName = fromProperty.Name;
                Type propertyType = fromProperty.PropertyType;
                System.Reflection.PropertyInfo toProperty = 
                    toObjectType.GetProperty(propertyName);
                Type toPropertyType = toProperty.PropertyType;
                if (toProperty != null && toProperty.CanWrite)
                    object fromValue = fromProperty.GetValue(fromObj,null);
                    toProperty.SetValue(toProperty,fromValue,null);
    private class test
        private int val;
        private string desc;
        public int Val { get { return val; } set { val = value; } }
        public string Desc { get { return desc; } set { desc = value; } }
    private void TestIt()
        test testo = new test();
        testo.Val = 2;
        testo.Desc = "TWO";
        test g = new test();
        Copy(testo,g);
Hopefully someone can point out where I am being daft???
        
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