Type.GetMethod Method (String)
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Searches for the public method with the specified name.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- name
- Type: System.String
The String containing the name of the public method to get.
Return Value
Type: System.Reflection.MethodInfoA MethodInfo object representing the public method with the specified name, if found; otherwise, Nothing.
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| AmbiguousMatchException | More than one method is found with the specified name. |
| ArgumentNullException | name is Nothing. |
The search for name is case-sensitive. The search includes public static and public instance methods.
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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.
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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 a method named MethodA.
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To run this example, see Building examples that have static TextBlock controls for Windows Phone 8. |
Imports System.Reflection Class Example ' Method to get: Public Sub MethodA() End Sub Public Shared Sub Demo(ByVal outputBlock As System.Windows.Controls.TextBlock) ' Get MethodA() Dim mInfo As MethodInfo = GetType(Example).GetMethod("MethodA") outputBlock.Text += String.Format("Found method: {0}", mInfo) & vbCrLf End Sub End Class
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