On Jun 2, 9:16 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nnowslpianmk.com>
wrote:

Well MyReflectionFunction is not really mine. It's a third party dll
which i have used many times before on really large and complex
classes and it is safe to assume that it works fine.

I removed each and every member variable of class A but i still get
the error.
" Unable to cast object of type 'MyNamespace.A' to 'MyNamespace.A' "

Code i am trying now:
object obj = MyReflectionFunction("classA");
A objA = (A) obj; //Exception thrown here

What amzes me is that when I copy paste this "(A) obj" in QuickWatch
or in Immediate window, the casting works!

public interface B
{
string Parse(string text);
}

public class A: B
{
public A() {}
public string Parse(string text) {return null;}
}

Gah! This is so freaky.

Now i only have the class A. No interface B.
public class A
{
//Completely empty
}

The myReflectedFunction works like this:
1. There is an xml like this:
 <namespace name="MyNamespace.A">
   <property name="type_name">
     <value>MyNamespace.A</value>
   </property>
   <property name="assembly">
     <value>..path till my project\bin\Debug\MyNamespace.dll</value>
   </property>
 </namespace>
2. I call object a = myReflectedFunction("MyNamespace.A");
  This reads the type and assembly from the xml above and creates the
object as follows
3. The code for creating the object is like this:
  Type type = Assembly.LoadFrom(assemblyName,
securityAttributes).GetType(typeName, true, ignoreCase);
  object obj = type.GetConstructor(bindingAttr, binder,
callConvention, types, modifiers).
                    Invoke(bindingAttr, binder, parameters, culture);
  return obj;

When i view the type and obj in the debugger, i can see that the type
is correct and the object is of correct type. Atleast it seems to me
that they are correct.
Infact in the step 3 mentioned above, i can debug into the ctor of A.
So i can be sure that it's class A's ctor that is being called and not
some other class with the same name.

So after object a = myReflectedFunction("MyNamespace.A");
this line
a.GetType().Equals(typeof(MyNamespace.A)
returns false!!
Any idea as to how i can see why the above line returns false?

Jon,
You always have some sort of an answer to my questions (though i dont
always fully understand them)
Thanks, though i did not expect the type A to be in 2 different
assemblies, but that was indeed the problem.
I found the differences in the Types by using The Object Comparer that
i wrote a few days back, woth which you helped me too!
But i am still confused about the whole thing.

Let me explain a little bit.
I have 3 projects in my soln:
1. MyNamespace.dll (Dll that i am writing)
2. ObjectFactory.dll (Third party dll for creating objects
dynamically)
3. ToTestIt.exe (Console application which i add to all my solutions
for testing the dll that i write)

Now, the offending code

object obj = ObjectFactory.MyReflectionFunction("classA");
A objA = (A) obj;
if (a.GetType().Equals(typeof(MyNamespace.A))
{
throw Exception();
}

is in a function in MyClass in MyNamespace project.
I call this function from the ToTestIt exe.

Now the "typeof(MyNamespace.A)" code above has 'module' as "path/
ToTestIt/bin/debug/MyNamespace.dll" and not
"path/MyNamespace/bin/debug/MyNamespace.dll".
I can't seem to understand why this is the case? Can you help me with
this.
Hope you could understand my question.