Using reflection to invoke a window form from its DLL

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HI Guyz,

i have a form reference in dll and i want to invoke the form through its dll using reflection. My Question is, Is this possible? and if yes how ?

Posted 31-Jul-12 3:34am

xavior885

Updated 31-Jul-12 3:42am

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xavior885 1-Aug-12 3:00am

I was new to this and your solution helped me alot. thank you very much

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-31T03:47:00

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Of course you can. Start here: http://martfish.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/using-reflection-to-open-a-form-by-name/[^].

But be aware that you need to add an extra interface (formal or not) to have communication between instantiating class and instantiated form - the argument passed to the constructor in the sample is one aspect of this.

You can use Assambly.GetTypes[^] to list all types and find the form descendants.

Posted 31-Jul-12 3:47am

Zoltán Zörgő

Updated 31-Jul-12 3:50am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jul-12 12:26pm

Of course, a 5.
--SA

Zoltán Zörgő 31-Jul-12 12:52pm

Thany you

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jul-12 12:55pm

You recently provided a really good answer on plug-in unloading, please see my comment.
--SA

Zoltán Zörgő 31-Jul-12 12:58pm

Yes that would be a good and really robust approach also in this case. But might be not needed if only loading them is required, and the dynamism of plugins is not.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Jul-12 13:42pm

Of course.
--SA