Reflection: How to Invoke Method with parameters

Question

Change "methodInfo" to "classInstance", just like in the call with the null parameter array.

  result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance, parametersArray);

You have a bug right there

result = methodInfo.Invoke(methodInfo, parametersArray);

it should be

result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance, parametersArray);

A fundamental mistake is here:

result = methodInfo.Invoke(methodInfo, parametersArray); 

You are invoking the method on an instance of MethodInfo. You need to pass in an instance of the type of object that you want to invoke on.

result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance, parametersArray);

The provided solution does not work for instances of types loaded from a remote assembly. To do that, here is a solution that works in all situations, which involves an explicit type re-mapping of the type returned through the CreateInstance call.

This is how I need to create my classInstance, as it was located in a remote assembly.

// sample of my CreateInstance call with an explicit assembly reference
object classInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(assemblyName, type.FullName); 

However, even with the answer provided above, you'd still get the same error. Here is how to go about:

// first, create a handle instead of the actual object
ObjectHandle classInstanceHandle = Activator.CreateInstance(assemblyName, type.FullName);
// unwrap the real slim-shady
object classInstance = classInstanceHandle.Unwrap(); 
// re-map the type to that of the object we retrieved
type = classInstace.GetType(); 

Then do as the other users mentioned here.

I would use it like this, its way shorter and it won't give any problems

        dynamic result = null;
        if (methodInfo != null)
        {
            ParameterInfo[] parameters = methodInfo.GetParameters();
            object classInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(type, null);
            result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance, parameters.Length == 0 ? null : parametersArray);
        }

I tried to work with all the suggested answers above but nothing seems to work for me. So i am trying to explain what worked for me here.

I believe if you are calling some method like the Main below or even with a single parameter as in your question, you just have to change the type of parameter from string to object for this to work. I have a class like below

//Assembly.dll
namespace TestAssembly{
    public class Main{

        public void Hello()
        { 
            var name = Console.ReadLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Hello() called");
            Console.WriteLine("Hello" + name + " at " + DateTime.Now);
        }

        public void Run(string parameters)
        { 
            Console.WriteLine("Run() called");
            Console.Write("You typed:"  + parameters);
        }

        public string TestNoParameters()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("TestNoParameters() called");
            return ("TestNoParameters() called");
        }

        public void Execute(object[] parameters)
        { 
            Console.WriteLine("Execute() called");
           Console.WriteLine("Number of parameters received: "  + parameters.Length);

           for(int i=0;i<parameters.Length;i++){
               Console.WriteLine(parameters[i]);
           }
        }

    }
}

Then you have to pass the parameterArray inside an object array like below while invoking it. The following method is what you need to work

private void ExecuteWithReflection(string methodName,object parameterObject = null)
{
    Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile("Assembly.dll");
    Type typeInstance = assembly.GetType("TestAssembly.Main");

    if (typeInstance != null)
    {
        MethodInfo methodInfo = typeInstance.GetMethod(methodName);
        ParameterInfo[] parameterInfo = methodInfo.GetParameters();
        object classInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(typeInstance, null);

        if (parameterInfo.Length == 0)
        {
            // there is no parameter we can call with 'null'
            var result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance, null);
        }
        else
        {
            var result = methodInfo.Invoke(classInstance,new object[] { parameterObject } );
        }
    }
}

This method makes it easy to invoke the method, it can be called as following

ExecuteWithReflection("Hello");
ExecuteWithReflection("Run","Vinod");
ExecuteWithReflection("TestNoParameters");
ExecuteWithReflection("Execute",new object[]{"Vinod","Srivastav"});