Type.GetMethod Method (String, BindingFlags)

public MethodInfo GetMethod(
	string name,
	BindingFlags bindingAttr
)

Implements

The following BindingFlags filter flags can be used to define which methods to include in the search:

• You must specify either BindingFlags.Instance or BindingFlags.Static in order to get a return.

• Specify BindingFlags.Public to include public methods in the search.

• Specify BindingFlags.NonPublic to include non-public methods (that is, private, internal, and protected methods) in the search.

• Specify BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy to include public and protected static members up the hierarchy; private static members in inherited classes are not included.

The following BindingFlags modifier flags can be used to change how the search works:

• BindingFlags.IgnoreCase to ignore the case of name.

• BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly to search only the methods declared on the Type, not methods that were simply inherited.

See System.Reflection.BindingFlags for more information.

Note
You cannot omit parameters when looking up constructors and methods. You can only omit parameters when invoking.

If the current T:System.Type represents a constructed generic type, this method returns the MethodInfo with the type parameters replaced by the appropriate type arguments.

If the current Type represents a type parameter in the definition of a generic type or generic method, this method searches the methods of the class constraint, or the methods of Object if there is no class constraint.

Note
For generic methods, do not include the type arguments in name. For example, the C# code GetMember("MyMethod<int>") searches for a member with the text name "MyMethod<int>", rather than for a method named MyMethod that has one generic argument of type int.

The following example gets the method that matches the specified binding flags.

using System;
using System.Reflection;

class Program
{

    // Method to get: 
    public void MethodA() { }


    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        // Get MethodA()
        MethodInfo mInfo = typeof(Program).GetMethod("MethodA",
            BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
        Console.WriteLine("Found method: {0}", mInfo);

    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Portable Class Library

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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