Accessing the Class Name of a Shared Method

[BBM]

I may be putting too fine a point on this, but I'd like to be able to know
the class name of a shared method from within the method.

BTW, the shared method is in a "MustInherit" class.

So it looks like this...

Public MustInherit Class BaseClass
Public Shared Sub DoIt()
' Need to know which class is "running"
' There is no "me" because the method is Shared
End Sub
End Class

Public Class DerivedClass
Inherits BaseClass
End Class

Calling Code would look like this...

DerivedClass.DoIt()

PS. DoIt needs the class name to do a lookup of user rights to that class.
The lookup procedure is the same for all classes - hence the shared method.
I realize I could always use a parm to pass the class name...

DerivedClass.DoIt("DerivedClass")

But it's cleaner if the DoIt method figures out the class name on its own.

Thanks.

BBM

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi BBM,

I'm afraid what you're trying to do is not possible. If you call the static
method with both BaseClass and DerivedClass, then use ildasm to view the
generated IL code, the instructions are the same, both are calling
BaseClass::DoIt(). So using reflection, you will always get the BaseClass.

Here's some similar discussion:

#The Old .NET Questions Forum - Calling type of a derived static method
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/dotnetqu...ow&ixPost=2466

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

BBM,

In addition to Walter, be aware that a Shared Class is not creating objects,
it is almost exact the same as a module which is fixed in Memory.

I would have liked it if the crazy name Class which is used in C was not
taken for that in Visual Basic. It is no Type which can be instanced.

Even more I think that it would have been better as in C# was used the name
module, but that would probably have kicked to *some* of C# users ideas that
C# is far above VB.Net.

Cor

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>I may be putting too fine a point on this, but I'd like to be able to know
the class name of a shared method from within the method.

BTW, the shared method is in a "MustInherit" class.

So it looks like this...

Public MustInherit Class BaseClass
Public Shared Sub DoIt()
' Need to know which class is "running"
' There is no "me" because the method is Shared
End Sub
End Class

Public Class DerivedClass
Inherits BaseClass
End Class

Calling Code would look like this...

DerivedClass.DoIt()

PS. DoIt needs the class name to do a lookup of user rights to that
class.
The lookup procedure is the same for all classes - hence the shared
method.
I realize I could always use a parm to pass the class name...

DerivedClass.DoIt("DerivedClass")

But it's cleaner if the DoIt method figures out the class name on its own.

Thanks.

BBM