Can't get C# Reflection code to work in VB

[Chris]

I am looking at this code in C#

Assembly a=Assembly.Load From("employee. dll");
Type t=a.GetType("Co mpany.Employee" );

I can't figure out what it is in VB.net can anyone help. I try

Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
Dim login_type As Type = login_assembly. GetType("clsLog in")

and I get a blue squiggly line under get type saying there is no default
property for 'system.type'

Regards

[=?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgQW50b24=?=]

The following is the equivalent:
Dim a As
System.Reflecti on.Assembly=Sys tem.Reflection. Assembly.LoadFr om("employee.dl l")
Dim t As Type=a.GetType( "Company.Employ ee")

You didn't specify a type for the "a" variable, causing it be 'Object' by
default, which of course doesn't have a "GetType" method.
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"Chris" wrote:

I am looking at this code in C#

Assembly a=Assembly.Load From("employee. dll");
Type t=a.GetType("Co mpany.Employee" );

I can't figure out what it is in VB.net can anyone help. I try

Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
Dim login_type As Type = login_assembly. GetType("clsLog in")

and I get a blue squiggly line under get type saying there is no default
property for 'system.type'

Regards

[sloan]

putting

Option Explicit On
Option Strict On

at the top of your vb.net code would have let you seen the error from the
get-go.

Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
is about the same as

Dim login_assembly as object

this is leftover from vb6......

"David Anton" <Da********@dis cussions.micros oft.comwrote in message
news:4D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

The following is the equivalent:
Dim a As

System.Reflecti on.Assembly=Sys tem.Reflection. Assembly.LoadFr om("employee.dl l
")

Dim t As Type=a.GetType( "Company.Employ ee")

You didn't specify a type for the "a" variable, causing it be 'Object' by
default, which of course doesn't have a "GetType" method.
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"Chris" wrote:

I am looking at this code in C#

Assembly a=Assembly.Load From("employee. dll");
Type t=a.GetType("Co mpany.Employee" );

I can't figure out what it is in VB.net can anyone help. I try

Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
Dim login_type As Type = login_assembly. GetType("clsLog in")

and I get a blue squiggly line under get type saying there is no default
property for 'system.type'

Regards

[=?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgQW50b24=?=]

What might have led to more confusion is the fact that you can't use
"Assembly" unqualified as a type in VB - it must be qualified.
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"sloan" wrote:

>
putting

Option Explicit On
Option Strict On

at the top of your vb.net code would have let you seen the error from the
get-go.

Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
is about the same as

Dim login_assembly as object

this is leftover from vb6......

"David Anton" <Da********@dis cussions.micros oft.comwrote in message
news:4D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

The following is the equivalent:
Dim a As

System.Reflecti on.Assembly=Sys tem.Reflection. Assembly.LoadFr om("employee.dl l
")

Dim t As Type=a.GetType( "Company.Employ ee")

You didn't specify a type for the "a" variable, causing it be 'Object' by
default, which of course doesn't have a "GetType" method.
--
David Anton
www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com
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"Chris" wrote:

I am looking at this code in C#
>
Assembly a=Assembly.Load From("employee. dll");
Type t=a.GetType("Co mpany.Employee" );
>
I can't figure out what it is in VB.net can anyone help. I try
>
Dim login_assembly = Assembly.LoadFi le(Server.MapPa th("bin/login.dll"))
Dim login_type As Type = login_assembly. GetType("clsLog in")
>
and I get a blue squiggly line under get type saying there is no default
property for 'system.type'
>
Regards
>
>
>

[Scott M.]

You didn't specify a type for the "a" variable, causing it be 'Object' by

default, which of course doesn't have a "GetType" method.

Well, you're right that not specifiying a type for the variable is the
problem, but you are wrong that the Object type doesn't have a GetType
method. In fact, GetType is defined on the object type and that is why all
other objects have such a method.