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Saroop Trivedi
Saroop Trivedi

Reputation: 2265

How to invoke without parameters method?

I have one class in which public method without input parameter. 

 public partial class MyClass: System.Web.UI.MasterPage
   {

      public void HelloWorld() { 
       Console.WriteLine("Hello World "); 
      } 
    }

I want to invoke HelloWorld() method into my another class 

public partial class ProductType_Showpt : System.Web.UI.Page
{
     protected void ChkChanged_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
          MyClass master =(MyClass) this.Master;   
          master.GetType().GetMethod("HelloWorld").Invoke(null, null);
    }
}

but it's throw this exception

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 30663

Answers (5)

Jorge Galvão
Jorge Galvão

Reputation: 1883

You need to either maark the HelloWorld() method as static or pass a MyClass instance as the first parameter to the Invoke method (as previous answers said).

Upvotes: 0

Sarath Subramanian
Sarath Subramanian

Reputation: 21301

Here you haven't use the class as first parameter in Invoke ie, you have to apply code as below.

MyClass master= new MyClass();  
master.GetType().GetMethod("HelloWorld").Invoke(objMyClass, null);

Now there may be another possibility of throwing error if you have another method with some parameters(Overloaded method). In such case, you have to write code specifying you need to invoke the method which doesn't have parameters.

MyClass master= new MyClass();  
MethodInfo mInfo = master.GetType().GetMethods().FirstOrDefault
                (method => method.Name == "HelloWorld"
                && method.GetParameters().Count() == 0);
mInfo.Invoke(objMyClass, null);

Now if you class instance is not known in advance you can use the following code. Use Fully Qualified Name inside Type.GetType

Type type = Type.GetType("YourNamespace.MyClass");
object objMyClass = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
MethodInfo mInfo = objMyClass.GetType().GetMethods().FirstOrDefault
                   (method => method.Name == "HelloWorld"
                    && method.GetParameters().Count() == 0);
mInfo.Invoke(objMyClass, null);

If your class instance is unknown in advance, and is in another assembly, Type.GetType may return null. In such case, for the above code, instead of Type.GetType, call the below method

public Type GetTheType(string strFullyQualifiedName)
{
    Type type = Type.GetType(strFullyQualifiedName);
    if (type != null)
        return type;
    foreach (var asm in AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies())
    {
        type = asm.GetType(strFullyQualifiedName);
        if (type != null)
           return type;
    }
    return null;
}

And call like

Type type = GetTheType("YourNamespace.MyClass");

Upvotes: 10

Adil
Adil

Reputation: 148120

You are trying to invoke method on null instead of instance of object, you can invoke instance method on instance of class not on null. pass instance of your class in first parameter of HelloWorld method.

MyClass myClassObject = new MyClass();    
MyClass.GetType().GetMethod("HelloWorld").Invoke(myClassObject, null);

Upvotes: 2

Soner Gönül
Soner Gönül

Reputation: 98750

I believe your Invoke method shouldn't take null parameter as a first one.

MyClass yourclass = new MyClass();    
MyClass.GetType().GetMethod("HelloWorld").Invoke(yourclass , null);

For first parameters from MethodBase.Invoke

The object on which to invoke the method or constructor. If a method is static, this argument is ignored. If a constructor is static, this argument must be null or an instance of the class that defines the constructor.

Upvotes: 7

Matten
Matten

Reputation: 17631

You have to specify an instance to execute the method on:

MyClass myClassInstance = new MyClass();
MyClass.GetType().GetMethod("HelloWorld").Invoke(myClassInstance, null);

Upvotes: 2

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