Reflection Issue

[Guest]

I am moving over to C# from VB.NET and am having some problems replicating
functionality that I could do in VB.NET.

In VB.NET I used to use the code

Dim frm As Object
Dim frmType As Type
Dim SampleAssembly As [Assembly]

SampleAssembly = [Assembly].Load(strLibrary)

frmType = SampleAssembly.GetType(strLibrary & "." & strClass)
frm = Activator.CreateInstance(frmType)
frmType.InvokeMember("Show", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, Nothing, frm, Nothing)

This would show a form (strClass) that existed in a dll library
(strLibrary), so long as the library was in the same folder as the
application. The key point was that the library was NOT included as a
referenced library in the application project - this is because I am using
the method in a generic menu system.

My question is that in C# when I use the code

object frm;
Type frmType;
Assembly SampleAssembly;

SampleAssembly = Assembly.Load(strLibrary);
frmType = SampleAssembly.GetType(strLibrary + "." + strClass);
frm = Activator.CreateInstance(frmType);

frmType.InvokeMember("Show",BindingFlags.InvokeMethod,null,frm,null);

which I thought would do the same thing I find that it does not work unless
the strLibrary file is referenced into the application.....

What am I doing wrong in the C# code - how can I change it so that I DONT
have to reference in the library that contains the form I Want to run

Thanks all for you help in advance

 

[Ollie Riches]

is this a compile time issue or runtime?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I am moving over to C# from VB.NET and am having some problems replicating
functionality that I could do in VB.NET.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.