Question

I have a static class like this:

public static class MyApp
{
    public static volatile MultiThreadLogger Logger = new MultiThreadLogger();
}

And a string like this:

"MyApp.Logger"

How can I get the object reference just with knowing the string? The string can be different like "MyOtherNamespace.Subnamespace.StaticObjA.MemberIwantToAccess" and I don’t want to create a new instance, I want to access the static instance – just by the string.

Possible?

Answer 1

Type t = Type.GetType("MyApp");
PropertyInfo p = t.GetProperty("Logger", Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | Reflection.BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy);
return p.GetValue(null, null);

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w3f99sx1.aspx

How to get a Static property with Reflection