C#

Lodeclaw wrote:

It should be a simple task, should it not?

Lodeclaw wrote:

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction

Lodeclaw wrote:

I've looked through the documentation already

public class Example
{
    // example of zero parameter function call
    public string GetFileName()
    {
            Assembly assem = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"C:\Test.dll"); // load the assembly
            Type typClsX = assem.GetType("Test.Class1", true);  // create  the object type
            object oClsX = Activator.CreateInstance(typClsX);   // create the instance
              // Function name and parameter list (in this case empty param list)
            MethodInfo miGncn = typClsX.GetMethod("ReturnFileName", new System.Type[0]);
              // invoke the function
            string intAddFunc = (string)miGncn.Invoke(oClsX,null);
              //  the result
            return intAddFunc;
    }

    // example of parameter list function call
    public int DoAdd(int x, int y)
    {

            object[] Parms = {x,y};  // parameter list
            Assembly assem = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"C:\BasicMath.dll"); // load the dll assembly
            Type typClsX = assem.GetType("BasicMath.Operations", true); // FQN
            object oClsX = Activator.CreateInstance(typClsX);       // create the instance
            MethodInfo miGncn = typClsX.GetMethod("DoAdd");         // retreive the function
            int intAddFunc = (int)miGncn.Invoke(oClsX, Parms);      //  invoke the with param list
            return intAddFunc;
    }
}

Mark Churchill wrote:

Just checking the obvious, but you do realise that bool? is shorthand for the struct System.Nullable< bool> yeah?

Mark Churchill wrote:

The complier is probably selecting the AddValue(string, bool) overload, and putting a bool in the ourput stream.

Mark Churchill wrote:

I would suggest that info.GetValue(..., typeof(object)) is actually returning a boxed bool, which in the watch window looks a lot like a string (as .ToString() is called). You can't cast directly from a boxed boolean to a bool? - you will have to go with new bool?(GetValue(bool)).

[TestFixture]
public class RandomTests
{
    [Serializable]
    public class Foo : ISerializable
    {
        public bool? bn = true;
        public bool? bt = null;
        public bool? bf = null;

        public Foo()
        {
            bn = null;
            bt = true;
            bf = false;
        }

        protected Foo(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
        {
            bn = (bool?)info.GetValue("bn", typeof(bool?));
            bt = (bool?)info.GetValue("bt", typeof(bool?));
            bf = (bool?)info.GetValue("bf", typeof(bool?));
        }

        public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)
        {
            info.AddValue("bn", bn);
            info.AddValue("bt", bt);
            info.AddValue("bf", bf);
        }
    }
    private SerializationInfo _info;
    private Foo foo;

    [TestFixtureSetUp]
    public void Setup()
    {
        var stream = new MemoryStream();

        var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        formatter.Serialize(stream, new Foo());

        stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

        foo = (Foo) formatter.Deserialize(stream);
    }

    [Test]
    public void BoolFalse()
    {
        Assert.IsFalse(foo.bf.Value);
    }
    [Test]
    public void BoolTrue()
    {
        Assert.IsTrue(foo.bt.Value);
    }
    [Test]
    public void BoolNull()
    {
        Assert.IsNull(foo.bn);
    }
}