Reflection causes error

[Venkat]

This is the piece of code in Early Binding and works as expected.
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using
ControlLicenseS ervice LicenseInfoClie nt lic =new ControlLicenseS ervice
LicenseInfoClie nt();
lic.Initialize( "sk26901CODA904 O",10300);
if (lic.IsSuccess )
{
MessageBox.Show ("Success");
}
else
MessageBox.Show ("Failure");

This is my code in Late binding:
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Assembly asm = null;
Type PublishType = null;
try
{
string strPath = GetInstalledPat h();
asm = Assembly.LoadFr om ("c:\\somefile. dll");
PublishType = asm.GetType("Co ntrolLicenseSer vice.LicenseInf oClient");
Object theObj = Activator.Creat eInstance(Publi shType);
// Array with Two members for passing the Parameter for Initialize method.
Type[] paramTypes = new Type[2];
paramTypes[0]= Type.GetType("S ystem.String");
paramTypes[1]= Type.GetType("S ystem.Int32");

// Get method info for Initialize( )
MethodInfo InitializeInfo =
PublishType.Get Method("Initial ize",paramTypes );
// Fill the array with the actual parameters
Object[] parameters = new Object[2];
parameters[0] = "sk26901CODA904 O";
parameters[1] = 10300;
InitializeInfo. Invoke(theObj,p arameters);
PropertyInfo pi = PublishType.Get Property("IsSuc cess");
string valu = pi.GetValue(the Obj,null).ToStr ing();
MessageBox.Show (valu);

}

I donot know what is going wrong here, but the code fails. Any one can
comment on this?
Does Reflection have any limitations? The initialize method may call
subroutines further and I feel that using late binding causes error in
calling the sub-subroutines.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Venkat <Ve****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote:

This is the piece of code in Early Binding and works as expected.
<snip>
I donot know what is going wrong here, but the code fails. Any one can
comment on this?

Not without a bit more information than "the code fails". Where does it
fail, and in what manner?

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.

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[Venkat]

Hmm..No problem...

I have posted the code fully in the first
thread. The only missing in that will be the dll file which is being
referenced.

As I had mentioned that the code correctly works in the early binding, I get
expected values. Running thru Reflection doesnot get the expected values. It
returrns the default values.

There is a method here called initialize which takes two parameters in and I
donot know internally how many methods it internally invokes, since I do have
just the dll file with me.

What I noticed from the log file that gets usually created when calling the
initialize method was that the internal call which is made from initioalize
method has failed. ie., initialize method calls another sub-routine where it
has failed, but this works correctly in early binding.

Hope this helps.
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:

Venkat <Ve****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote:

This is the piece of code in Early Binding and works as expected.

<snip>

I donot know what is going wrong here, but the code fails. Any one can
comment on this?

Not without a bit more information than "the code fails". Where does it
fail, and in what manner?

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.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Venkat <Ve****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote:

Hmm..No problem...

I have posted the code fully in the first
thread.
No you didn't. You posted some code starting with a variable
declaration. Please read the page I referenced.
The only missing in that will be the dll file which is being
referenced.
Well, that doesn't really help us much, unfortunately.
As I had mentioned that the code correctly works in the early binding, I get
expected values. Running thru Reflection doesnot get the expected values. It
returrns the default values.

There is a method here called initialize which takes two parameters in and I
donot know internally how many methods it internally invokes, since I do have
just the dll file with me.

What I noticed from the log file that gets usually created when calling the
initialize method was that the internal call which is made from initioalize
method has failed. ie., initialize method calls another sub-routine where it
has failed, but this works correctly in early binding.

So, it sounds like the reflection part is working fine. I suggest you
find out from wherever you got the DLL from what the problem is likely
to be with initialization - it sounds like they should get a fair
amount of information from the logs. It could well just be a problem of
relying on another DLL being in the same directory, or something like
that.

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