C# : Invoke a method with [Type].InvokeMember() in a separate Thread

Question

I am using this code where I am invoking the run method of a List of classes that I loaded dynamically from dlls:

for (int i = 0; i < robotList.Count; i++)
{
    Type t = robotList[i]; //robotList is a List<Type>
    object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
    t.InvokeMember("run", BindingFlags.Default | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, o, null);
}

The invokeMember is invoking the run methodof each of the classes in the list.

Now how can I invoke this run method from invokeMember in a separate Thread ? So that I'll have separate threads running for each of the invoked methods.

Answer 1

If you know that all your dynamically loaded types implement Run, could you just require they all implement IRunable and get rid of the reflection part?

Type t = robotList[i];
IRunable o = Activator.CreateInstance(t) as IRunable;
if (o != null)
{
    o.Run(); //do this in another thread of course, see below
}

If not, this will work:

for (int i = 0; i < robotList.Count; i++)
{
    Type t = robotList[i];
    object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
    Thread thread = new Thread(delegate()
    {
        t.InvokeMember("Run", BindingFlags.Default | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, o, null);
    });
    thread.Start();
}