Issues in create the instance of singilton class using reflection in C#

 

Scenario -

 

I have a public class (named class1) with only internal constructors. Assume this class exists in assembly class1.dll. Now I want to create the instance of class1 inside another public class (named class2) that exist in another assembly (class2.exe).

 

Case A

Class1.dll

 

namespace ns1

{

    public class class1 {

        internal class1(int i)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("init ns1.Class1, args value: " + i);

        }

        public void print()

        {

            Console.WriteLine("executing ns1.class1.print()");

        }

    }

}

 

Class2.exe

 

namespace ns2

{

    class Class2

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"c:\Class1.dll");

            Type type = assembly.GetType("ns1.class1", true, true);

           

            ConstructorInfo[] constructors = type.GetConstructors(

BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);

            object o = constructors[0].Invoke(

                BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic,

                null,

                new object[] { 1 },

                System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

// typecasting does not work

            ns1.class1 instance = o as ns1.class1;

        }

    }

}

The type cast of object o to ns1.class1 fails. Program things that ns1.class1 defined in assembly loaded form c:\class1.dll is different that the one declared in the statement but they are exactly the same. Can anyone explain the reason? Is it because I am not using Binder?

 

Case B

 

Class1.dll

 

namespace ns1

{

    public class class1:Stack {

        internal class1(int i)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("init ns1.Class1, args value: " + i);

        }

        public void print()

        {

            Console.WriteLine("executing ns1.class1.print()");

        }

    }

}

 

Class2.exe

 

namespace ns2

{

    class Class2

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFrom(@"c:\Class1.dll");

            Type type = assembly.GetType("ns1.class1", true, true);

           

            ConstructorInfo[] constructors = type.GetConstructors(

BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);

            object o = constructors[0].Invoke(

                BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic,

                null,

                new object[] { 1 },

                System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

// typecasting works

Stack instance = o as Stack;

 

            MethodInfo[] methods = type.GetMethods();

            methods[0].Invoke(o, null);

        }

    }

}

The type casting of object o to Stack works because the type is predefined and compiler has no issue is finding the standard definition or maybe binding works by default. I can even invoke print method on the object. Another interesting observation is that there is no object slicing happening in C# unlike C++. This is because the everything is passed by reference in C# (thanks to Abhinab who pointed out the reason).